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How long until we see laptops powered by AMD's Beema?

2014 :awe:

I don't see any product announcements using E1-6010, E2-6110, A4-6210 or A6-6310 yet either though (doing a quick google search).
 
Regardless of what anyone says, AMD has and always will be my choice of processors.

They are very affordable and can lift its weight in terms of performance.

You should start seeing companies integrating the new processors by the middle of next year because it takes time to design and manufacture anything, especially electronics.
 
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Lots of Beema in cheap laptops these days.

One of the Beema A8's (an A6-6310+dedicated graphics RAM) is $300 right now at Best Buy. It seems both Intel and AMD have taken their big cores out of this price range and pushed OEMs onto Atom and Cat respectively. However, you can get U series i3's around $350, so I'm not sure the $50 savings would be worth it (with the Beema you're getting lower single thread and comparable, possibly even slightly superior, multi-thread performance to a U series i3).
 
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Yea, I got a full power i3 (2.4 ghz) for my wife on sale at Best Buy for 360.00. She is pretty happy with it. It is reasonably fast, and she keeps it mainly plugged in, so battery life is not a concern.

I really think the place for Beema/Mullins and Atom are in 11.6 inch and smaller, and especially detachables like the Asus Transformer T100 and the new Acer Switch 10. I would seriously consider one of these if I were in the market for a laptop now.
 
Well, I bought a X360 with the A8-6410.
Nice looking machine, but so far unimpressed
Screen is TN as you might have imagined, ethernet is 10/100, keyboard feels smaller than it is, oh and it feels slow, but more on that...

Yes, it has a 5400rpm spinner, and my intention is to replace it with a OCZ Vertex 460 240GB, plus upgrade the RAM. And that uncovered a big problem: There is no easy cover to just remove and access the RAM or the hard drive, I had to download the service manual and saw that to upgrade hard drive you have to virtually take the whole machine apart. For RAM it is even worse, you have to take the motherboard out!!! Even worse, the rubber feet have to be removed in order to access additional screws to get access to the internals. Seriously HP?

Will upgrade to the SSD when I have time to take the laptop apart. On the other hand, I might return it and wait for a more sensible design...
 
Well, I went through the pain of removing the rubber feet and putting the laptop apart.
Time consuming, but oh the results were well worth!

The Vertex 460 makes a world of difference. The laptop was quite snappy for a machine with a spinner, but obviously for someone who is used to SSD speed, the most powerful system running on mechanical storage will feel slow.

Feels every bit as responsive as my desktop with a A10-7850K Kaveri, and also every bit as responsive as my laptop, a HP Probook 6475b (A10-4600m Trinity) When benching it, of course it is slower in 3dmark, it has less graphics grunt, but if you want a laptp to use, not to bench it, it is a very good machine... now HP just avoid hiding screws below rubber feet and give us an IPS screen
 
Wish SSDs came standard already. Most Average Joes would much appreciate the speed more so than the space. (though, they think bigger number = good.)

A Beema chip with otherwise high end components (3K display, SSD, 9 cell batt, etc) would be quite awesome.
 
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