Thin it to win it
AMD was the first company to develop and release an ‘ultraportable' platform for notebooks at a mid-market price point. As Pat Moorhead explained to us a year ago, the low power processor was more powerful than Intel's Atom, but still allowed long battery life and thinner, lighter designs than traditional notebooks.
While a few products we made based on this ‘Yukon' platform, by the middle of this year Intel was able to take the thin-and-light initiative away from AMD with its CULV platform. Now AMD is fighting back with its second generation ultrathin platform, also known as ‘Congo', which features a dual-core processor.
In this exclusive HEXUS.TalkingShop, MSI marketing manager Richard Stewart returns to the HEXUS.tv studio to talk us through a couple of, as yet unreleased, thin-and-light notebooks based around Congo and sporting AMD's new Vision consumer notebook brand.
We discuss the relative merits of the two notebooks as well as the importance of thin-and-light as a category in its own right. We also compare the two with equivalent MSI products based on CULV - which still comes only in single-core flavour and put Stewart on the spot about which one he would choose.
