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Turion Notebooks Going In Different Directions
News HP and Acer launched notebooks on Wednesday based on AMD's latest Turion chip with 64-bit processing capabilities. The Turion brand is essentially AMD's energy-efficient version of its Athlon 64 chip for desktops.
[June 22, 2005, 17:05]
Dual-core AMD Turion: Slow Out Of The Gate review
Reviews The early results on AMD's dual-core Turion 64 X2 mobile processor are not encouraging, either in terms of performance or power management. Our first Turion 64 X2-based notebook, the HP Compaq nx6325, has just finished up in (ZDNet sister site...
[June 26, 2006, 10:35]
AMD's Turion Gets A Second Core
News AMD has gone dual-core across the board with the expected release of the Turion 64 X2 processors on Wednesday. The Turion processor was AMD's first major effort to build a processor designed specifically for notebooks, and it now has two cores...
[May 17, 2006, 8:55]
Dual-core AMD Turion: Slow Out Of The Gate
Talkback I'd like to see these turion x2 notebook benchmark results compared to the same system running a 64bit OS.
[June 26, 2006, 17:04]
Dual-core AMD Turion: Slow Out Of The Gate
Talkback Don't say XP64, that's a bigger joke than turion 64. Ok as soon as we get a real 64bit OS. LOL
[June 27, 2006, 4:14]
AMD Preps Turion For Takeoff
News AMD plans to release its Turion processor for notebooks on Thursday, the first stage in an effort to recover ground lost in laptops in recent years to Intel. The Turion is essentially an energy-efficient version of AMD's Athlon 64 chips for desktops.
[March 10, 2005, 7:55]
AMD Slashes Chip Prices
News AMD cut prices over the weekend on some dual-core desktop processors and Turion mobile processors, bringing them more in line with the prices of some Intel chips. It's now cheaper to buy AMD's top five Athlon 64 X2 processors as well as the company...
[January 24, 2006, 8:50]
AMD Lines Up Centrino Challenger
News Turion, take me away. Turion is the brand name of a new line of energy-efficient notebook processors AMD will come out with in the first half of 2005. While the company did not reveal any technical specifications on the chip, AMD said Turion will...
[January 7, 2005, 7:40]
AMD Sets New Mobile Beasts On Centrino
News The Turion MT-40 and MT-37 chips are available to PC makers for $359 and $268 (£199 and £149), respectively, in bulk amounts. AMD now has 12 64-bit Turion processors available for thinner and lighter notebooks, including three ML-series and seven...
[August 22, 2005, 15:20]
Which Laptop?
Forum Assuming all else equal is a Pentium 4HT model 630 3.0ghz comparable to an AMD Turion 64 ML-32 1.8ghz. A salesman told me that you could effectively double the Turion clock speed to compare it to the P4ht.
[January 6, 2006, 15:38]
AMD Edges Towards Mobile Enterprise Deals
News A couple of large corporations are considering adopting HP's Compaq nx6125 notebook, which contains a Turion processor from AMD, said Bar Mahony, division marketing manager for AMD's mobile-business segment.
[August 23, 2005, 9:00]
AMD Beats Expectations
News The Computation Product Group, which makes the company's Opteron, Athlon 64 and Turion processors, enjoyed a 79 percent increase in revenue compared with the total in last year's fourth quarter. AMD will have a dual-core version of its Turion...
[January 19, 2006, 10:45]
Christmas Cheer Around The Corner For PC Buyers
News Well, for AMD, it's been nine months, and Turion is doing well. The 64-bit Turion mobile chip also is moving well. A recent push by AMD to sell its Athlon 64 and Turion processors could also prompt additional price cuts by Intel or PC makers in the...
[October 21, 2005, 15:35]
AMD Ready To Unleash Puma
News AMD's new Turion X2 Ultra processor is the first designed-for-mobile processor that the company has ever produced; the earlier versions of its Turion processor were essentially the same design as Opteron with a more power-friendly implementation.
[June 4, 2008, 10:05]
Photos: HP Shows Off Latest Laptops
News Currently the product has an Intel Core Duo processor, but HP will soon offer an AMD dual core processor: the AMD Turion 64 X2. It has a "hi-tech" brushed steel shell, and by this summer will be sold with AMD Turion 64X2 dual core chips as well as...
[May 10, 2006, 16:10]
Acer Ferrari 5005WLMi review
Reviews That price is pretty steep for a notebook of this size, but it does include some high-end components: a 2.0GHz AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 dual-core processor, 2GB of fast 667MHz RAM, an ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 graphics card with 512MB dedicated...
[November 8, 2006, 11:52]
OpenSuSE Stumbles, Ubuntu Shines
Blog It's an AMD Turion 64-based system, and of course it seemed to load just fine. I tried loading openSuSE 11.0 on my Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook S2110 over the weekend. However, for some reason, it stumbled over the Alps touchpad.
[July 15, 2008, 9:21]
Thankfully, It Worked For Me
Talkback I installed XP SP3 on my Lifebook S2110, which has an AMD Turion 64 CPU, with no problems. Whew. After what I have been through with Vista on the Lifebook S6510 (and the S2110, for that matter, although not as much), I would have been really...
[May 14, 2008, 9:18]
HP Compaq 6715b review
Reviews The HP Compaq 6715b runs AMD’s Turion 64 X2 processor. Design Despite its 'balanced mobility' billing, this is a sizeable (35.7cm by 26.5cm by 3.5cm) notebook weighing 2.7kg, which places it at the limit of what mobile professionals would be...
[September 17, 2007, 10:44]
Chipmakers Trim Prices
News The TL-60, a dual-core Turion chip for thin notebooks that runs at 2GHz, dropped 26 percent, from $354 to $263 (£188 to £140). Intel and AMD have both introduced autumn price cuts. AMD earlier this week lowered prices on notebook processors and a...
[October 25, 2006, 9:50]
