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    Sony Offering AMD CPUs in VAIO Notebooks Discussion

    Discussion in 'Notebook News and Reviews' started by Charles P. Jefferies, Jun 24, 2010.

  1. Charles P. Jefferies

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    Charles P. Jefferies, Jun 24, 2010
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    Ahbeyvuhgehduh Lost in contemplation....

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    Must admit this kinda surprised me ... have you all come across any "official reasoning" why they are trying this again?
     
    Ahbeyvuhgehduh, Jun 24, 2010
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    AMD probably made them an offer they couldn't refuse? ;)

    The pricing on these notebooks is good - $650 nets a notebook with a dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM, and a Blu-ray drive.
     
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    Five years ago, if you told me Sony and affordable could be put in one sentence, I would've called you crazy. The new AMD quad-core options seem quite compelling - they use less power than Intel's current quad-core options, although admittedly, they are more in-line performance-wise with the upper-end Core i5 options. Performance-wise, though, I'm not opposed to AMD offerings - the only reason why I've tended to avoid AMD in recent years is that their chips' power usage and heat output can't compete with Intel's offerings.
     
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