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AMD Plants Turion Line of Mobile Chips
dsginter writes "Today, AMD has blessed us with their Turion line of chips. Though it is supposed to compete with Intel's Centrino line, with such a name, one has to wonder if AMD is going after the Celeron, the name of which is derived from the latin word, 'celer', meaning 'fast' or 'swift', as in 'celery' - the fastest of all vegetables."
Looks like I'll have to buy Intel or Apple for my next laptop then.
...does this mean that the Turion is named after the fastest of all roots, the turnip?
#include "cunning_plan.h"
Turion and Centrino need to have adventures in a magical Roman wonderland. I think Nick Junior could do this justice ...
I thought I had the wrong site for a minute.
I was expecting CPU trees and shrubs. Hanging baskets overflowing with ddr modules.
A garden shed filled with all kind of GNU/Linux branded tools, and a Microsoft compost heap.
Infact, all sorts of strange things came to mind.
anyway, it doesn't matter, nothing to see here, please move along.
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"A thick fleshy young shoot or sucker, such as an emerging stem of asparagus."
Seldom has a new cpu made me feel so tingly inside.
Turion sounds like some person or place from The Silmarillion.
Everyone will start to cheer when you put on your sailin' shoes.
Hi kids, this is Bob the Turion, and his sidekick, Larry the Celeron.
I am spartacus
... no wait
What colour flowers does it produce? And do they attract butterflies?
Last of all, when is my local garden centre going to stock them?
Anyone else find it interesting that the Celeron was named after a fast vegetable?
The rapid radish is by far the swiftest of all vegetable crops! Kneel to the power of the radish! Bow, I tell you!
"You lied to me! There is a Swansea!"
The article is factually wrong. I took a stick of celery, a beetroot, an artichoke, and a handful of lettuce and put them at one end of a track. At the other was a bowl of water and a sunlamp, to give them an incentive.
After 5 minutes, they were all STILL moving at the SAME speed! One hour later, they are still neck and neck although the lettuce is beginning to look a little worn-out.
I've had about enough of people pumping up one particular fruit or vegetable, with NO BASIS in actual testing. MOST vegetables travel at the SAME SPEED (unless you drop one, or fire it from a gun, or something) and there is no point paying more for a faster one.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
I thought the fastest vegetable was the runner bean.
AMD's announcement comes following their failed "Alderon" line of chips, which after just a few months in production were all simultaneously destroyed by a giant moon-shaped pun laser.
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Despite a poor showing initially, the lettuce DID win, taking advantage of a light breeze to flutter over the finish line! Some of the lettuce wound up off the track but I feel this is acceptable.
I am sorry to say that the celery finished second equals with the other vegetables -- a poor showing for a plant touted as 'the fastest of all vegetables'.
I would like to point out to other posters that the performance of the jumping bean and asparagus is not relevant -- the claim being tested is that celery is 'the fastest of all vegetables' and it is NO FASTER THAN AN ORDINARY COMMODITY ARTICHOKE.
In the light of this test, I have decided not to put celery in my computer.
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.