Real world user TRINITY reviews are in, guess what I found?

[Phynaz]

George, but why should we have to settle for second (or third) best?

 

[ShintaiDK]

If more people gave Trinity a chance, they'd find it suits their every day needs quite well.

Then why buy AMD when you can buy VIA? Or are we in some kind of area where AMD is good enough, Intel too much and VIA too little?

 

[pelov]

Then why buy AMD when you can buy VIA? Or are we in some kind of area where AMD is good enough, Intel too much and VIA too little?

Depends on the price and usage. If gaming is the most common heavy workload then Trinity is quite good. Power consumption figures also match or exceed the Intel counterparts.

We've been at "good enough" CPU performance for years now. Unless you've got a specific need, there's no reason to upgrade from a Q6600, never mind going from SB > IB or Llano > Trinity. The performance gains are all centered around perf-per-watt and GPU. Tablets are selling like hotcakes and replacing laptops/desktops because a puny little ARM core is good enough, what makes you think Trinity's cores or SB cores are somehow lacking?

 

[lakedude]

If more people gave Trinity a chance, they'd find it suits their every day needs quite well.

If maximum performance is not the issue, price will be. Our family has several laptops, each time I bought one I got the best one I could at the lowest price for a laptop that was "good enough" for the intended use. The wife and kid only use theirs for surfing so they each have basic $400 laptops. One is an Intel the other is an AMD. I got them at different times but each time I got the best one I could for the least money.

That A10 Trinity is too pricey to compete in the basic laptop arena. If it was $400 I'd have tripped over myself running off to buy one.

On the other hand my laptop gets used for gaming and video encoding and has a big screen for my old eyes. The A10 was not available when I bought mine but even if it was it most likely would have lost out to an i5 paired with a discrete video card, depending on price/performance. Once again the price matters, a lot. The A10 performance isn't bad (I'd take one) but the price is just a little too high.

If it came down to a choice between the 2 laptops linked in the OP I'd take the AMD in a heartbeat. Does that make you feel better?

 

[frozentundra123456]

If maximum performance is not the issue, price will be. Our family has several laptops, each time I bought one I got the best one I could at the lowest price for a laptop that was "good enough" for the intended use. The wife and kid only use theirs for surfing so they each have basic $400 laptops. One is an Intel the other is an AMD. I got them at different times but each time I got the best one I could for the least money.

That A10 Trinity is too pricey to compete in the basic laptop arena. If it was $400 I'd have tripped over myself running off to buy one.

One the other hand my laptop gets used for gaming and video encoding and has a big screen for my old eyes. The A10 was not available when I bought mine but even if it was it most likely would have lost out to an i5 paired with a discrete video card, depending on price/performance. Once again the price matters, a lot. The A10 performance isn't bad (I'd take one) but the price is just a little too high.

If it came down to a choice between the 2 laptops linked in the OP I'd take the AMD in a heartbeat. Does that make you feel better?

I think your post makes a lot of sense. Trinity is not bad, but the price is not really low enough yet. Performance wise, it is kind of in limbo. More than adequate for normal usage, but more expensive than intel which is also "good enough" for what most people use a laptop for. For gaming, to me it still is marginal, almost good enough, but not quite. Granted it is better than HD4000, but to me neither is really adequate for gaming. I might make the sacrifice in gaming ability if the A10 was in the 450.00 range, but at 500 + on sale to over 700.00 in some places, the sacrifices for gaming are just too much.

 

[santilmo]

I got the new Samsung NP535U3C Trinity flavored slim series 5 and lovin' it for daily use. Of course it can't compete with the i3 counterpart but for the price I paid, I'm happy for this new lappy... Way better than my Acer Aspire One 722...

Looks like one, feels like one, but not really one.. (Ultrabook) 😉

 

[Rifter]

Price is still to high.