Laptop CPUs?

Setek · **Joined:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:27 pm **Posts:** 206

SickBeast wrote:

A lot of people like the AMD laptop CPUs because the integrated graphics are better than what you would get with Intel.

That said, I would want Ivy Bridge in my next laptop and nothing else.

Yes but that would be important if graphics was my interest I don't play games or watch movies on my Laptop I just do task usually multiple tasks Microsoft Office running, while surfing the net usually 15-20 tabs some streaming youtube while I'm reading articles or research etc..... Unless there is something about the APUs that AMD are capable of that I'm not aware of?

medallish · **Joined:** Fri May 18, 2012 5:43 am **Posts:** 1

Setek wrote:

SickBeast wrote:

A lot of people like the AMD laptop CPUs because the integrated graphics are better than what you would get with Intel.

That said, I would want Ivy Bridge in my next laptop and nothing else.

Yes but that would be important if graphics was my interest I don't play games or watch movies on my Laptop I just do task usually multiple tasks Microsoft Office running, while surfing the net usually 15-20 tabs some streaming youtube while I'm reading articles or research etc..... Unless there is something about the APUs that AMD are capable of that I'm not aware of?

I've had a HP Probook 6465b for quite a while now, most of what I do is pretty much like you describe, I have plenty of tabs open, some streaming youtube, some on just normal sites, there's nothing preventing on AMD APU's from doing these tasks. Personally I went with an APU based laptop because as much as I don't usually use graphics on my laptop, it's nice having the option, I especially liked it when I was stuck on an airport for 10+ hours, and I was able to waste a few hours in games, GPU acceleration works well too, and obviously Intel recognizes the need for more power on the graphical side of things(See GMA graphics > HD2000, HD3000, HD4000, and what we expect from Haswell.

The other thing that APU's have is really nice battery times, and nice prices, so you can (Finally) Get cheap AMD based laptops that provide you with "good enough" CPU performance while not getting some less than 2 hour battery life.

apoppin · Posted: Fri May 18, 2012 10:03 am

Welcome to ABT!

It looks like Trinity will improve on battery life also
http://techreport.com/articles.x/22932
from page 13

Quote:

It's no surprise to see the Trinity whitebook pulling off longer run times than the two Intel notebooks, since those have bigger displays and more power-hungry CPUs. The leap over Llano is encouraging, though; coupled with our performance data, it suggests AMD has managed to deliver both higher performance and greater power efficiency without a die shrink.

Now, that said, Trinity's power-efficiency lead over Llano might not be as huge as our web-browsing results suggest. Last year, after much fiddling with BIOS and control panel settings, we managed to squeeze 5.4 hours of web surfing out of the same Llano whitebook. We weren't able to reproduce that result this time, but it's worth keeping in mind.

Even if Trinity only gets you an extra hour of run time over its slower predecessor, though, that's still a nice improvement.

grstanford · **Joined:** Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:19 am **Posts:** 4968

In the market segment Piledriver is likely to occupy, the manufactures are just as likely to cut down on the battery size because of the CPU being more power efficient, leaving you no better off and them with extra profits.

So far PileDriver has turned out even more pathetic than I thought it would. Hvae they managed to improve CPU performance even 10% over bulldozer?

Setek · **Joined:** Tue Oct 14, 2008 8:27 pm **Posts:** 206

medallish wrote:

Setek wrote:

SickBeast wrote:

A lot of people like the AMD laptop CPUs because the integrated graphics are better than what you would get with Intel.

That said, I would want Ivy Bridge in my next laptop and nothing else.

Yes but that would be important if graphics was my interest I don't play games or watch movies on my Laptop I just do task usually multiple tasks Microsoft Office running, while surfing the net usually 15-20 tabs some streaming youtube while I'm reading articles or research etc..... Unless there is something about the APUs that AMD are capable of that I'm not aware of?

I've had a HP Probook 6465b for quite a while now, most of what I do is pretty much like you describe, I have plenty of tabs open, some streaming youtube, some on just normal sites, there's nothing preventing on AMD APU's from doing these tasks. Personally I went with an APU based laptop because as much as I don't usually use graphics on my laptop, it's nice having the option, I especially liked it when I was stuck on an airport for 10+ hours, and I was able to waste a few hours in games, GPU acceleration works well too, and obviously Intel recognizes the need for more power on the graphical side of things(See GMA graphics > HD2000, HD3000, HD4000, and what we expect from Haswell.

The other thing that APU's have is really nice battery times, and nice prices, so you can (Finally) Get cheap AMD based laptops that provide you with "good enough" CPU performance while not getting some less than 2 hour battery life.

Welcome to ABT.
I ended up testing out the whole Tablet thing instead of getting the higher speced 11" i3 Laptop that I had my eyes on, I ordered a iPad 2, so I'll see how the Tablet life works out.

BoFox · Posted: Sat May 19, 2012 9:28 pm

grstanford wrote:

In the market segment Piledriver is likely to occupy, the manufactures are just as likely to cut down on the battery size because of the CPU being more power efficient, leaving you no better off and them with extra profits.

So far PileDriver has turned out even more pathetic than I thought it would. Hvae they managed to improve CPU performance even 10% over bulldozer?

Well, have they?

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