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Turion 64 X2 benchmarks

August 22, 2006

Tom’s Hardware does the legwork. They conclude: Though AMD has not landed a great coup with the Turion 64 X2, the first 64 bit CPU with two execution units for laptops, the engineers in Dresden and Sunnyvale deserve commendation. They have succeeded in developing a laptop CPU that provides considerably more performance than its single-core [...]

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Intel is dooooomed

June 15, 2006

Blogger “Sharikou” is pretty obviously an AMD partisan. He wears his heart on his sleeve. That said, his blog, Journal of Pervasive 64-bit computing, is a solid resource for AMD-Intel horseracing, with an emphasis on the future that is 64-bit. For example, he notes that Intel’s aggressive price-cutting has really put the squeeze on Dell. [...]

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Dell XPS M1210

June 1, 2006

Andrew at NotebookReview has a review of the much-anticipated XPS M1210 laptop from Dell. This 12″ laptop is a truly impressive unit, from both perspectives of performance and design. Some of the highlights compared to the old Inspiron 700/710m models that it replaces: – higher resolution screen (1280×800 rather than the 1024×780 that is standard [...]

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