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AMD Launches Turion Mobile Processor

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the silly-chip-names dept.

justforaday writes "Earlier today, AMD launched their Turion mobile processor, which is based on the AMD64 architecture. This is set to compete directly with Intel's Centrino (Pentium-M) line of processors. Chips will initially be clocked between 1.6 and 2.0 GHz. Looks like we should be seeing some nice low-powered 64-bit notebooks in the near future."

13 of 247 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Availability by spywarearcata.com · · Score: 2, Funny

    I've been using a Fujitsu AMD laptop for some time. The following URL should work from your town just fine:
    http://www.computers.us.fujitsu.com/

  2. Re:Availability by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    They have this new thing called the internet. It sells you stuff and things.

  3. Pretty smart processor naming... by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you tell someone about your computer processor, and you cough slightly while you say the processor name, you end up with a Turing machine. If only it were true...

    1. Re:Pretty smart processor naming... by Jerf · · Score: 4, Funny

      you end up with a Turing machine. If only it were true...

      You want a Turing Machine in your laptop?

      Me, I find lugging that infinite tape around a real bitch.

  4. So that means... by game+kid · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...my new laptop won't lower sperm count? Seriously, I can't stand putting a hot laptop on (oddly enough) my lap, so they become tabletops instead for me.

    These Turions better generate less heat or I'd have lost all hope. And feeling in my groin.

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  5. Re:Availability by sonoluminescence · · Score: 3, Funny

    I read that as "one-point-five MegaPeople".

    I need to get out more.

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  6. Re:I'm Waiting For Benchmarks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, a no-brainer. Anyone who buys anything other than AMD has no brains.

  7. Re:Availability by UranusReallyHertz · · Score: 5, Funny

    MegaPeople. I see these all the time, especially at all-you-can-eat restaraunts. I think there number is increasing rapidly in America.

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  8. Re:kind of late? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    That's why they also gave you the blue men flying around on centrino hoverboards. Crap man, what more do you want?

  9. Re:Availability by corngrower · · Score: 2, Funny
    MegaPeople. I see these all the time, especially at all-you-can-eat restaraunts.


    Yes, and his town is so small it only has 1 1/2 of them. That's probably why the store in town doesn't sell AMD notebook computers.

  10. Pronunciation? by sabNetwork · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm not really into carnivorous plants, so I hadn't heard this word before.

    Here's a WAV pronunciation.

    tur-e-on

    Not very phonetic. Shouldn't product names be easy to read without hearing them?

    I imagine that I'll hear many tur-yun's, tur-eye-un's, and too-rye-un's.

    1. Re:Pronunciation? by Ewasx · · Score: 2, Funny

      Shouldn't product names be easy to read without hearing them?

      You mean like the rest of the english language?

  11. When in Rome. . . by Ohreally_factor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Centrino + Turion = Centurion

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