CES 2009 : AMD officially launches Yukon platform

[HEXUS]

Platform for ultrathin notebooks debuts in the form of the HP Pavilion dv2 Entertainment Notebook PC.

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[Hicks12]

Hmm, ~£550 for a thin/small laptop with spec similar to an atom.... have i missed something? It has a good gpu for media but thats it, £550 is a bit much tbh.

[Breezey]

Hmm, ~£550 for a thin/small laptop with spec similar to an atom.... have i missed something? It has a good gpu for media but thats it, £550 is a bit much tbh.

I was wondering the same tbh.

[Biscuit]

I don't think the features of the CPU have been quite as 'cut back' as the atoms where however it still doesn't make up for the cost which i agree is too much.
Seems very odd to me they have used a 65nm CPU when they have created a 45nm manufacturing process (apparently a good one at that) which surely would make the chip cheaper and more energy efficient.

[Hicks12]

Yeh, i was wondering why a 65nm was used and cant figure out one lol. I think the cpu should out perform the atom but its still a cut back, it could well be like the old pentium days where a 1.6 pentium wasnt the same as a 1.6 amd with amd being much better.

[staffsMike]

This really grinds my gears. Here they are saying they are going to deliver affordable ultra mobile laptops.. and they give up big netbooks. The graphics are certainly better than the intel 950 but coupled to that chip I would think HD is still going to be a bit of a stretch, certainly on the integrated version.

I suppose HP's prices are generally inflated though so I will reserve judgement until someone usefull picks up the chipset. What they should have done is made use of PUMA and given us a 13.3" laptop with an X2, HD3200, blu ray and HDMI out for £500. Then I would be singing their praises

[Funkstar]

Ok,whats the difference between Yukon and Neo?

Is Neo the real name and Yukon was the roadmap name?

[Scott B]

Just added an HP press release that has a bit more info: HP Enriches your Entertainment Experience at CES

[Funkstar]

Taken shamlessly from another site:

[Scott B]

Ok,whats the difference between Yukon and Neo?

Is Neo the real name and Yukon was the roadmap name?

Yukon is the 'platform' and Neo the CPU, I believe. But yes, Yukon was the codename too.

[staffsMike]

Hmm reasonably good from those tests Might eat my words yet.

And it seems the DV3 might be exactly what I described above

num num.. tasty words.

Starting to want that dv2.. stupid msi wind.. hopefully it will be £500 and not less else I might be annoyed lol

[McEwin]

Its another classic name from AMD. "My laptop has Yuk-on" - well give it a clean then... [tumble weed]

[Kerotan]

a 65nm part with 1600 GHz clock, 512 MB L2 cache

Is it me or are those specs a little high?

[Biscuit]

haha well spotted dude

[Scott B]

Doh!

[pumpman]

Id like one of these with the 780g chipset and the hd3400 gpu , wap it in a media centre eat atom +945 for breakfast