llano Thinkpads

[Medikit]

Lenovo has introduced the Llano to their Edge series with the E425 and E525. Unfortunately they only offer the A4 3300M and the E2-3000M. I've seen some llano reviews out there but none comparing all of the current choices we have today, ie how the A4 3300M might compare to the i3s and i5s within its price range. Anyone know of some good reviews?

 

[Zap]

Looks as if the Radeon HD 6480G built in to the A4 is a hair better than the HD 3000 in Intel Sandy Bridge (AKA 2nd Generation Core) CPUs. However, the Intel CPUs generally perform better (per core) and have a bit of a battery life advantage. Of course the A6 and A8 have much better graphics.

The A2 looks to have only 120 cores and at lower clock speeds too, so I'd expect Intel's HD 3000 to give it a good run.

I'm actually kind of disappointed. I was hoping for at least an A6 (320 graphics cores?) in a notebook no larger than 14". I'm gonna give up waiting eventually, and probably settle with Intel's HD 3000 (in a thin/light notebook).