New AMD Turion chip

Tom Martin -- Thu, 06/05/2008 - 10:02

I see that AMD's next generation of Turion X2 Ultra Dual-Core laptop chips (and associated chipsets), launched yesterday, is specifically touted as optimized for high-definition playback. Specifically AMD says these chips will offer "Five times better high definition image quality".

Any idea what 5X better means?

Syd -- Thu, 06/05/2008 - 14:50

Good question...

The laptop I currently use has a Turion64 processor in it. I guess I'll wait to compare the new one to this and see how large an improvement there is on Hi Def images. I have no clue how one would quantify a 5x improvement though.

Tom Martin -- Thu, 06/05/2008 - 15:16

Assuming you can run HD on your laptop, are there flaws in the image that they'd be trying to correct?

Syd -- Thu, 06/05/2008 - 15:29

I guess I'm out the running, my laptop DVD player is not High Def. I suppose I can try and locate some HD content on the net and see if my laptop supports it.

Jim Hannon -- Sun, 06/08/2008 - 17:01

Hope the laptop makers figure out how to cool these things better than in previous generations. My Turion 64 on my HP laptop runs so hot I'm considering a cooling base for it.
Jim

Syd -- Sun, 06/08/2008 - 19:31

I'm with you on that.

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