Anyone else wish they offered AMD?

I dont want to start a meaningless flame war here, but does anyone else wish Lenovo would offer AMD and Intel, as a choice for users?

 

So far, AMD's offerings are considered a tad below Intel's, so I don't think anybody would whine.

 

Actually, even though I am an Intel fan, I agree...it would allow them to market more consumer-oriented and less costly models.

(my friend wanted one, but couldn't afford it because he wanted a T7500, and if it was AMD, it probably would have cost less)

It would work if they made them available in all 3000 models and the R-series Thinkpad..

 

I'd have to agree with f4ding.

I am neither biased towards Intel or AMD, I always go with whomever is leading the pack.

Currently AMD isn't even close to Intel when it comes to processor performance, as of late all they are doing is increasing the clock of their processors. (Which is pointless, they need to release a brand new architecture to compete with Intel)

So in short, there is no reason for ThinkPad to offer AMD at this time when all of their processors are subpar vs. Intel. (For now)

 

Me i've always leaned towards AMD and I know lately the Cores basically killed them but I think this may change that http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/19/the_spider_weaves_its_web/

 

I believe the Thinkpads Line should remain a Intel Processor Notebook.

The Thinkpad is a Top Shelf machine with a performance petigree styling!

Sircas,

 

There was a thread about this I made a while ago, just in case anyone wants to look it up.

But I still believe that Lenovo should release a few AMD models. It would make for some good, cheap R series notebooks. Not to mention it'll give people a choice. I believe Lenovo is the only major notebook brand that only offers Intel, they seem like they haven't gotten past the days of brands like Dell that only offer Intel.

I wouldn't mind buying a cheap AMD X series ultra portable.

 

Due to the rather pedestrian performance of current AMD processors, I see no reason to go AMD at this time.

But should circumstances change in a year or so, I would hope Lenovo would be open to re-evaluating their choice of CPUs.

 

I'm surprised that Lenovo doesn't offer an AMD-based system for some of the cheaper models, but then again ThinkPads are business oriented, which generally aren't as concerned about overall pricing than the average consumer would be.

If you actually read some of the reviews of Phenom out there, you'd see that it is no threat to Intel. It's 20 to 30% slower than Intel's quad cores, clock-for-clock.

 

I think AMD products run too hot for the laptop environment at this time. Our failure rate on some of the Dell's we have with AMD processors in them is quite high. The heat the X2's generate is outrageous. I like AMD's spider thought process with CPU and GPU coordination, but come one fix the heat issue.

 

Thta's interesting, Phil. AMD's claim to fame during the era of your EE was that they ran so much cooler.

 

And your sure the Dells aren't being ugh... Dells?

 

Too true. It could be the maker not the processor.

 

It is, afterall, the notebook maker's responsibility to implement an adequate thermal solution for the heat generating components.

 

AMD is dead for now. I am an AMD fan but for the past year AMD can't compete with Intel. AMD still hasn't planned to release any break through product yet. If you read anandtech review, you'll realize the top mobile amd proccessor is only equal to an average intel core 2 duo. But AMD tends to run a Bit hot.

 

I am not ready to pay for Intel. For instance, if the price for Intel and AMD machine is identical then with AMD processor I'll get a better graphics card, larger HDD or even 2GB RAM not 1GB RAM. With Intel my battery would last 3h, with AMD 2,5h. Recently, I had a choice between Turion TL-60 2 GHZ and Intel T7500 2,2GHZ - both were from the same ASUS series, both had the same HDD, RAM and graphics card - the only difference was that the price were 400$ higher for Intel. I took a decision that it is not worth to overpay such a huge price for Intel.

 

Either the processor was a top of the line chip, like the T7700, an Extreme-branded chip, or you missed another part of the specification for the two notebooks.

An Intel processor does not warrant a $400 markup unless it's one of the two choices listed in the above sentence.

 

I would agree with JM -- it doesn't seem like an apples to apples comparison. $400 seems a bit extreme.

Phil