Any AMD turion + nvidia asus laptop coming?

Hi, everyone? Does anyone know if Asus intends to release a good notebook with a turion processor and an Nvidia GPU? The A6K has pretty much the configuration I want, but its bulky plastic chassis doesn't fit me. I'd like a reasonably portable 15 incher. Ideally, it would be the A6K internals in the V6V's chassis (gasp), but I would settle with the something like the z70, but no less (I'm a demanding user...).

I know I'm asking for some pretty marginal stuff, but I intend to use linux and ATI's driver support is so so. I recall Justin from Proportable said new AMD laptops would be annoucned by thanksgiving, what happenned to them? Anyway, thanks in advance for your help!

 

yes, asus intensìds to realease a 15.4 turion with geforcego 7300TC(a6km in europe), for te review of that videocard you will look here http://world.altavista.com/babelfis...en&trurl=http://www.hkepc.com/hwdb/g72m-1.htm

 

It looks like asus has tried to stay away from amd chipsets and i cant blame them. Centrino is the mainstream. If intel makes available its 64 bit mobiles anytime soon amd once again falls into the shadows. With laptops now support pentium D and the 630 intel series i just dont see why manufacturers would want to pick up amd for mobile chipsets. For desktops is a whole other story. I would personally swear by amd for desktops but for laptops my advise is stick to intel

 

You mean AMD processors, not chipsets, I presume?

That's too harsh. You obviously *can* make great laptops using the Turion (see Compaq nx6125 and the Acer Ferrari 4000 series for example).

Asus' primary Turion effort, the A6K(n) just fall short for some reason. I think this is a combination of cost and brand awareness. Manufacturers seem reluctant to market Turion systems unless they're significantly cheaper than their Intel counterpart which lead to less than sellar implementations, whilch lead to increasing the mindset that 'Centrino' is superior.

Personally I hope AMD can get their processors into more competitive systems as soon as possible. That would be good for everyone. (Except Intel that is...)

 

I've been just reading a few news articles on CNet.com, and it appears as though Intel has been trying to choke the competetion by offering those companies who exculsively use Intel processors huge discounts off their processors' cost. Its really unfair to the competition, especially AMD. There was a whole fisaco this summer concerning this - the EU got involved and raided Intel corporate offices and everything. In Asia, Korean and Japanese governments forced Intel to stop doing this, or face having to leave their markets.

 

yeah looks like the A6Km will be the next nice one to go for. I just put a A6v (Centrino + Go6200) version on display today and will be getting the A6vm (centrino with 7300) in 5 weeks, hopefully the A6k(m) will look the same and come in a similar time frame, cos the chasis looks really really sweet! just like we expect form asus

insane

 

Laptops with Pentium D? I think something like that would catch on fire! A friend of mine has one and he idles at like 47, loads both cores at like 58, with an XP-120 and a 120mm, 79cfm fan on his CPU, two 79cfm fans on the case.