Comments on: AMD's new Puma stalking Intel's Centrino

Chipmaker prepping energy-efficient Griffin notebook chip and Puma platform, to help it compete against Intel in the notebook market.

[C_G_K]

Isn't competition wonderful??

The constant competitive battle between Intel and AMD shows us what healthy competition can do - bring real innovation and advancement. They are constantly pushing each other to produce better, cheaper products. Who wins in this battle? We all do.

Compare this to the situation with operating systems where we have a big fat-cat pseudo monopoly, Microsoft. They can spend most of their time figuring out how to squeeze more money out of us all and less time satisfying their customers needs. Progress and innovation has been stunted by this situation and there is really no end in sight, especially now that M$ has a huge arsenal of patents to try and bury any competition. bummer.

[gjl229]

I like the idea of "discreet" graphics. Does this mean that the monitor switches from the dating site to photos of airplanes when the significant other enters the room??

Another question: why is this blunder still in the article two weeks after its posting? Perhaps no one took the time to write Mr. Kanellos. Perhaps no one noticed. Perhaps we've lost the ability to read. Your choice.

[gjl229]

On the other hand, my email to Mr. Kanellos was returned with the note "address rejected" by CNET. Perhaps he sought employment elsewhere. Too bad. I like his clear style.

[pithenumber]

Puma has graphics that pwn Centrinos, the highest end graphics for centrino, I believe is 4700MHD, which has lower performance than Radeon HD 3100, which is on the low end for Puma based laptops.
Core2 is better than Turion any day, the high end Turions compete with low end C2Ds
I would say Puma for light (read as non crysis) gaming, Centrino for everything else