AMD strictly moderated (AMD)

[mmoy]

As an actual consumer of these products, I feel that AMD has
dropped the ball bigtime in notebooks. But that's pretty obvious
if you look at what they've done in the notebook space in the
last year - not much. Realistically, Intel has the better choices
in the midrange and performance categories and I still maintain
that you need 400 Mhz to get parity between Core 2 and X2
processors.

There used to be a DTR market which would use up to 89 watt processors but I don't see these anymore except for the boutique
notebook makers. I'd be happy to buy a 5600+ notebook but no one
is going to build one. As they could just build a 2.33 Merom
notebook that would perform comparably at much lower power.

When AMD comes out with their new architecture, what are they going to deliver first? If the past is a guide, then we should see server, desktop and then notebook. Intel's releases last
year could be considered brutal. Launching three product lines
in a short period of time is tough. And they took from May to
September to do it. If AMD introduces server chips, say in
August, we might not see notebook chips until the end of the
year.

I will be shopping for a notebook in the fall. I would be happy
to buy an AMD notebook if the price/performance is comparable
with Intel to 10%. But AMD is going to have to prove to me that
they can do it as the recent past has me doubting.

As far as Wireless N goes, I don't really care about it. The
cafes that I go to are still on Wireless B. My house is on Wireless G and a few places that I go have G. The Robson stuff
does sound interesting. Another layer in the storage hierarchy.