Acer and Asus showing Turion notebooks at CeBIT!!!
Argh! I need to find some pictures!!!
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119969,00.asp
Argh! I need to find some pictures!!!
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119969,00.asp
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| Notebooks Offer a Sneak Peek at AMD's Chips Mobile 64-bit Turion processors won't be available until next month, but products are being shown at CeBIT. Tom Krazit, IDG News Service Thursday, March 10, 2005 HANOVER, GERMANY -- Advanced Micro Devices' new Turion mobile processors haven't been formally released yet, but notebooks that use them are already on display on the show floor at CeBIT, including a few with Turion processors not yet announced by AMD. Acer is displaying two Turion-based notebooks in one of the 27 exhibition halls on the fairgrounds of Hanover, Germany. Both Aspire notebooks feature the ML-40 version of the Turion processor, which runs at 2.2 GHz and features 1MB of Level 2 cache, according to BIOS information displayed during the startup procedure of the notebook. The most powerful Turion chip that AMD announced this week was the ML-37. A clock speed or cache amount was not provided for that chip. Aiming at Intel Turion is AMD's most ambitious attempt yet at cracking Intel's runaway lead in the market for notebook processors. AMD's Athlon 64, Sempron, and Athlon XP chips can be found in several notebooks from a variety of manufacturers, but Intel's Centrino package--consisting of the Pentium M processor, a mobile chip set, and a wireless chip--has been a massive hit for the world's largest chip maker. AMD lowered the power consumption of its mobile processors with Turion, which comes in 25-watt or 35-watt varieties, according to an Acer spokesperson. The power consumption number refers to the maximum amount of power the chip will require at a given time, a worst-case scenario figure given to notebook makers so they can design their systems to withstand that amount of heat. AMD's older mobile chips were generally used in heavier notebooks that didn't require the same heat protection demanded by notebooks weighing 5 pounds or less. Turion chips fall into one of two categories, the ML and MT families. Under its naming system, the closer the second letter is to the end of the alphabet, the less power the chip consumes. The numbers refer to the relative performance of the chip within a given category. Benchmark results and technical reviews are not available yet, but the Acer Turion systems are expected to outperform similarly configured Pentium M systems, and cost less, the Acer spokesperson says. Also on Display Contract manufacturer Asustek Computer was also showing a Turion notebook on the CeBIT show floor. Its model was based on the 25-watt version of the processor, but a model number or clock speed could not be immediately determined from the system information, which was written in Chinese. The chip did come with 1MB of Level 2 cache, according to Asustek's display. Turion chips and systems are not expected to become widely available until the end of April. AMD representatives were not immediately available to confirm plans for the ML-40. |
