Asus N60Dp, AMD's new 45nm Caspian Processor and Tigris Platform

I tried to post this in the News section but I forgot that I don't have permission to post there, so here it is in the Asus section (hopefully fitting since it is an Asus laptop which shows the details).

It has finally leaked.

The Asus N60Dp (shown on Asus's site: http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=GAUzzzu4OcjPh9Pl)

Already Ken at GentechPC has expressed the feeling that he doubts we will get this laptop in North America. It seems that Asus has a deal with Intel.

I can't wait to see what 45nm does for AMD in the laptop world!!!!

A Japanese article says AMD is claiming a 42% increase in battery life over Puma platform. The same article claims a vague TDP of 18 watts. I am guessing that this is for the processor, as current Turion Ultra chips run between 30-35watts.

Who's excited? It looks like the mobile battle is heating up (or cooling down?) this September. Can AMD's Tigris catch the Centrino2? If it can, there's a lot of meat on those bones for AMD to tear off and increase their marketshare, if they can convince OEMs not to cut backroom deals with Intel to block this new product from the market.

 

all this laptop needs is a 4860m. about time tigris platform is being released, now amd can be competitive. you got a link to the japanese article?

This laptop is not the high end model, there is still the M600 caspian cpu models to consider. i want more tigris models.

If the battery life on this laptop platform is good, intel will be pooping there pants.

 

If you do a google search for AMD Caspian then click on news then click on all languages then you can see a few dozen news articles.

 

Crosslinking with another thread for easy reference:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?p=5217715

 

I've got to give it to those guys at AMD, they are persistent buggers. Not only that, they know how to tempt people who know that Intel CPUs are good but their GPUs are crap!

 

Man, I'd love to see this one. I had an Asus whitebook but now I'm on an HP. I think I'd rather go back to Asus...

 

I've changed my mind. Come on, a 16" display with only 1366x768 resolution? Who the heck are they trying to kid? 12" laptops have 1280x800 displays. At that rez they're only hitting 96dpi. That's pathetic, it actually has *less* vertical work space than a 12" notebook?? What's the point of a video card with 1GB of RAM when the amount of memory needed for a frame buffer is only 3MB? How can you call this a "Vision" platform with "HD" capabilities and not give it a full 1920x1080 display? Lame, lame, lame.

Give me a 15" display, 1920x1200, to actually make good use of that graphics card... Asus, you're not winning back my business with lame offerings like this.

 

Yes, but it's cheap! ASUS (as many other manufacturers) is mostly into cheap notebooks nowadays. Besides, "16:9 natural aspect ratio blahblah widescreen HD" sounds good on paper, and will make enough people not worry about the screen.

Because "1GB" looks good on the label and will fool enough customers. Few people know that these amounts of RAM are not needed on GPUs.