AMD skips Chromebooks, bets on Windows 10

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story imageChromebooks may be hot-ticket items, but with its sixth-generation A-series chips for mainstream laptops, AMD is instead placing its bets on Microsoft's Windows 10. The new chips, code-named Carrizo, will appear in laptops priced between US$400 and $800 from Asus, Acer, Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and Toshiba. The first wave of laptops will become available starting in July, initially with Windows 8, and later in the year with Windows 10.

The new chips include quad-core A8 and A10 processors, which have up to six GPU cores, and the faster FX chips, which have up to eight GPU cores. The chips draw between 15 watts to 35 watts of power. Some new laptops based on the chips were shown at the Computex trade show in Taipei this week. PC makers are considering the new Carrizo chips for Windows laptops, not for Chromebooks, said Adam Kozak, marketing manager at AMD. Laptops also will get thinner and lighter, as Carrizo chips are about 29 percent smaller than their predecessors.

Re: Logic (Score: 0)

by Anonymous Coward on 2015-06-07 13:10 (#AKRS)

I'd say the ability to control which (and when) updates you want installed is a fairly important one. Especially seeing as how awful QA on recent Microsoft patches has been recently.

Then there's the whole "Metro" thing where they strip away your ability to customize the interface (like, say, re-arranging the order of your start menu). The general "dumbing down" of the interface, taking away vital controls and information, is not welcome.

POP3 support in a mail client would be nice too.
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