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."

Comments

If the Celeron is named after celery...

[TheSwirlingMaelstrom]

...does this mean that the Turion is named after the fastest of all roots, the turnip?

Gardeners world

[LiquidCoooled]

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.

Not safe for work, surely?

[TheGrim]

"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.

The Tolkien Chip!

[hndrcks]

Turion sounds like some person or place from The Silmarillion.

Veggie Tales

[binaryDigit]

Hi kids, this is Bob the Turion, and his sidekick, Larry the Celeron.

Celery NOT fast

[kahei]

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.