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[morrowinder]

RE: Turion Launch:

No product till end of the month? Not a very strong launch so far. They put up some gaming benchmarks and digital content creation here but they look suspect to me.

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1774693,00.asp

They definitely benchmarked vs. Centrino with integrated graphics. I wonder if they used an ATI integrated chipset or an external card for the AMD laptop. These benchmarks are probably a measure of video card performance in the gaming benchmarks. Not credible if you understand what they did and they are trying to portray: really its all about the cpu!

Note that there are no business benchmarks and that the Turion lost on Sysmark content creation and mp3 encoder lol even with AMD running the benchmarks:)

Of course anandtechs numbers show how an evenly matched system would look:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2129&p=10

So it is apparent that AMD is fudging in their benchmarks yet again.

Oh yes and the 2ghz centrino is a 27 watt envelope product while the AMD product is 35:) Guess we know which one has better battery life.