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First AMD Temash laptop announced

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Win 8 with only 2GB of memory to share between the CPU and GPU. :thumbsdown:

I'm completely unfamiliar with Temash... are those Jaguar or Piledriver cores??
 
Looks like it is Jaguar based.

I am guessing this plus the 7790 are the pipecleaners for PS4/Xbox720.
 
So it is competing with the Asus x202e / s200 which go for about $500, but are often on sale for $400 to $450.

The Asus has a better build quality than the other v5s I have seen, as well as having a 3rd generation 1.8 ghz core i3 and 4gbs of memory.

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So unless it has substantially better battery life, or Acer moves to an ips screen (unlikely), the Asus is going to be much better than a 1.0 to 1.4 ghz amd quad core ultra portable netbook.
 
Seriously, is there really a point to this laptop?

A a8 trinity laptop can be had for that price and will perform much better.

How long will this thing last with 2GB RAM (and its actually less because the gpu will be using some).
 
Enigmoid said:
Seriously, is there really a point to this laptop?
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It's like the new netbook. I don't mean that in a positive way either, netbooks were horrible. I wonder what is keeping the cost so high in these things? Windows 8 license? Sigh. Either AMD, Acer, or microsoft needs to get costs down to make serious low cost tablet contenders.....I strongly suspect the Windows 8 license is a lion's portion of that....
 
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2gb with no SSD is just a dealbreaker. Accounting probably told marketing it was either the two extra gigs of ram or the touchscreen, and the rest is history...
 
Vesku said:
Perhaps the 2GB is to not show up Clover Trail?

"That said, Clover Trail–based devices are limited in a few of the same ways as ARM-based Windows devices. The key limitation is that they come with and support only 2GB of RAM, limiting their multitasking prowess. (By comparison, 4GB is the bare minimum on traditional PCs.)"

http://windowsitpro.com/article/windows8/windows-8-tablets-145121
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When is x86 not x86? I mean, if the "standard desktop platform" for apps, moves on to 64-bit x64/AMD64/EMT64 computing, and most desktops and regular laptops have 4GB or 8GB of RAM, where does that leave Intel's low-end chips like the Atoms, that can't run x64, and top out at 2GB of RAM? I mean, at that low a level, why even bother to pay the x86 tax? You might as well buy an ARM device and save a few bucks, as you still wouldn't be able to run modern desktop apps on that low of an x86 platform anyways...
 
Cedar Trail and most other Atoms that aren't meant for phones or tablets can run x86-64. I have a feeling Atom needs the 64-bit mode enhancements more than the bigger CPUs. x32 API might be a good fit for it..
 
Hardware sort of compares with the tablets at that price point except for the screen.

I don't think notebooks have the "in style"-ness to compete though. And Windows costs too much compared to Android.
 
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