PC industry scared notebooks may hurt laptop sales
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Advanced Micro Devices has no immediate plans to release a processor designed for low-cost laptops, sometimes called notebooks, saying its not yet clear whether or not growing shipments of these devices will cannibalize sales of mainstream laptops.
Some low-end notebook models use an existing AMD Geode processor, but the company hasn't announced a specific processor aimed at this product segment, apart from general plans to release chips based on a low-power architecture called Bobcat in 2010.
Other companies and analysts are also worried, in part due to the popularity of the mini-laptops.
The recent proliferation of notebooks are largely due to the success of Asustek Computer's Intel Celeron M-based Eee PC, which was introduced in 2007. The June unveiling of Intel's Atom processor, designed expressly for small, inexpensive laptops, spurred the release of a host of copycat devices by hardware makers looking to replicate the Eee PC's success.
To illustrate his point, Otellini said Atom-based computers weren't suitable for watching YouTube videos for an extended period of time.
But a recent online debate suggests Atom-based notebooks may do more for users than Intel might wish, even when it comes to video playback.
The debate was sparked by the release of a video by Via Technologies, which compared the high-definition video playback of a notebook based on Via's Nano processor and an Atom-based Eee PC, with both computers running Windows Media 11. The video showed the Nano-based computer playing a high-definition Windows Media file. The Eee PC struggled with the same file; the video playback was unwatchable.
Blogger JKK, of hardware site JKKMobile, called the Via video "BS," and countered with a video of his own that showed an Eee PC 901 playing the same high-definition video file using Windows Media 10 without any apparent problems.
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