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My opinion about Llano is about middle ground. It's not totally dominating in graphics performance compared to the HD 3000, and the CPU is basically as fast as their previous gen. Battery life is pretty good though. It's quite an achievement considering how far they were behind.

Caveat: Anand is falling behind and uses outdated drivers for older systems. The Intel systems using newer drivers fare far better.

Some people say Anand is biased towards Intel. I think they are biased towards AMD.

Here the gains are only 30-50% rather than close to 2x: http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/a8-3500m-llano-apu,2959-9.html

I really think they'll get that closer without having to resort to Ivy Bridge. Llano and Brazos will likely fare better than Bulldozer IMO.