We had good things to say this summer about the mobile incarnation of AMD's A-series APUs, otherwise known as Llano, after we picked apart the review notebook AMD sent us. Oh, sure, the Llano system wasn't quite potent enough to knock out a competing Intel notebook in our CPU tests. The Llano rig's integrated graphics performance was excellent, however, and its battery life was surprisingly competitive—better than an equivalent Intel config when playing movies or games, and only a little bit behind with with web browsing.
Alas, the AMD notebook we tested was a "whitebook" put together by Compal and supplied by AMD with no trace of a PC vendor's brand or equivalency to a ...
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