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    HP Intros 2000z Series Notebook Starting at $350 Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Charles P. Jefferies, Aug 1, 2011.

  1. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Charles P. Jefferies, Aug 1, 2011
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    Getting one of those single-core processors is a death sentence, they can't even run a Youtube video smoothly. The AMD E-350 isn't bad, though.
     
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    I find it odd that we are seeing a lot of 15"+ notebooks with E/C series APUs. What benefit does it really give the user? The screen will be the main power draw so battery life benefits are minimal, I'm pretty sure performance is also down from Celeron/Pentium DC/Athlon X2 entry level notebooks. There are even Sub $400 notebooks with i3's.
     
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    Indeed, full sized Fusion notebooks represent a major step backward in performance from AMD's own Athlon II Dual-Core Mobile CPUs. Putting a netbook CPU in a large, cheap plastic consumer notebook isn't a recipe for success, but it does smack of extreme cost cutting.

    In the end, I'm not sure that the race to the bottom in the PC industry is working.
     
    linuxwanabe, Aug 1, 2011
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