AMD has a referentielaptop with economical Trinity-apu of the system builder Compal. The laptop looks like an ultrabook but doesn’t seem as sturdy. Similar notebooks have, however, only 500 to 600 dollar cost.
Intel strongly bet on its ultrabooks, wants AMD not to be left behind and as a processor for thin ultraportables, the company has the economical Trinity-apu in mind. Trinity is the successor to Llano, and the performance would be about 25 percent better, while the gpu is even up to 50 percent better performance. For the fuel-efficient variants, which have a tdp of 25W or 17W instead of 35W, are the differences likely to be different.
AMD claimed that the economical new apu for ultraportables with a thickness of up to 17mm was suitable, and during a presentation for financial analysts, the company’s first referentielaptop. The notebook is made by Compal and should serve as an example for pc makers how a Trinity model could look like.
The laptop is 18mm thick and feels according to Engadget not determined firmly. Firmness is one of the features that Intel want to see in ultrabooks, but the AMD variant will also roughly half the cost of the average ultrabook: around 500 to 600 dollars. The prototype include two usb 3.0 ports, mini-displayport and hdmi. Halfway through this year have Trinity come out and not long after will be the first notebooks with the chip are expected to appear on the market.
