News - AMD Ultrabook christened Sleekbook by HP

[Jedibeeftrix]

i'd like a 13" sleekbook sporting an A10 Trinity chip with a 1600x900 resolution, might have to wait until HP gets there.

[scaryjim]

Lie in bed, laptop on chest, games in full swing. I suspect quite a lot of people do. Of course, I'm currently limited in my selection of games by the lacklustre Intel IGP in my current laptop. A Trinity powered, lightweight laptop that can also punch through some newer games would be very interesting - particularly a 14" version to keep the size down to "slip in courier bag and take anywhere". Plus a 32GB caching SSD as standard? Sounds pretty good to me for the price - hopefully that means we'll see standard chassis Trinity laptops for less than £400

[kingpotnoodle]

I think we're all agreed that HP have dropped the ball a bit on these ultra-sleek-books. BUT if the battery claims on the AMD chips are correct then they may finally be some serious competition to Intel in the laptop space. We just need another manufacturer to bring out some decent hardware and a few reviews

Competition maybe, but depends how the pricing works out because 90%+ people only use their notebook for office/internet tasks and a Core i3/4/7 has potential to be a lot faster on those than AMD, the only win area for AMD is games and possibly image quality for media if attaching to a larger screen.

I suspect the pricing will be much as before where £xxx buys you a laptop featuring an AMD chip great for games or an Intel chip that's faster at everything else.

I've tried to game on a laptop and managed it but never really found many opportunities, and even those I do find I could easily have passed the time with a film/book or other entertainment. These days I only ever game on my desktop workstation when I deliberately sit down to have a gaming session.

[Biscuit]

Competition maybe, but depends how the pricing works out because 90%+ people only use their notebook for office/internet tasks and a Core i3/4/7 has potential to be a lot faster on those than AMD, the only win area for AMD is games and possibly image quality for media if attaching to a larger screen.

Since when did Office/Internet based tasks require uber Intel power to be fast? If anything the most demanding part of the web is active content which is becoming hardware GPU accelerated so the intel would technically be slower.

Essentially it will make zero difference which chip you get if thats how basic your level of usage is.

[bledd]

I don't care about games on a laptop, screen space is what I want. Only cheap netbooks should have resolutions this low.

All laptops/ultrabooks should be steering towards 1080P now

[Medallish]

I have a Llano based HP Probook 6465b(14" 1600x900 screen, A6-3410mx "1.6GHz TC2.3", 2x4Gb memory, 120Gb SSD, and a lot of good features you get with the top model), it's not because I'm a regular gamer, fact is Llano has very competitive battery life, and decent performance, much more balanced than a Intel mobile chip, which is good, but you'll still be limited in a lot of ways you aren't with a Llano APU, two things I like about my current Probook, GPU acceleration works really well in some browsers, IE9 actually runs so well on it, I've started to use IE again..., and yes having the chance to run a decent game is really welcome when you're stuck at an airport, I mainly use my laptop for smaller tasks, browsing, writing, etc., but I don't consider them entertaining for that long, if I have to wait 10+ hours at an airport like I had to a couple of weeks ago, so loading up L4D and being able to waste a few hours is something I think anyone can value. Before this laptop I had a Lenovo Thinkpad T500, best laptop I've had in a long time, but man was it useless at games, so when I was visiting family and friends in Denmark there was no chance of having friendly game with them. CPU performance is kind of irrelevant on laptops, atleast until you reach Atom level wich is just ugh.. But a Quad core Llano @ 1.6GHz feels anything but slow.

Best of all is the Price though, My Probook with it's features were a lot cheaper than the equivelent I5 based 6460, while having the same build quality and features.

But I agree that the screen is useless, 1366x768 is really only good for one task on a screen at the time, it was pricey to get, but I made damn sure I atleast got 1600x900, which is decent on a 14" imo.

[wasabi]

A lot these will be bought for middle-aged sales reps and execs who would moan at the IT department that the text is too small if the res was higher. I think the 14 inch ones will hit that sweet spot of see-able for these guys quite well.