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Sources Say Apple Originally Planned AMD Chip For MacBook Air

Posted by timothy on Sunday November 20, 2011 @07:02AM from the llano's-just-a-town-in-texas dept.

Several media sources (here's PC Magazine's version), all seemingly based on an account at SemiAccurate citing (but not naming) "multiple sources," report that Apple originally planned an AMD-chip based MacBook Air, rather than the Intel-based version that emerged later ("Plan B," says the report).

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Re:CPU & GPU performance not relevant by gnasher719 · 2011-11-20 11:40 · Score: 1, Troll

I'm not sure why you think this, if they were looking for power consumption, wouldn't they go with the Atom?
Only an imbecile would put an Atom processor into a laptop. Performance is about a factor five less than what is in the slowest current MacBook Air. Atom is only for toy netbooks.