Comments on: The Magical AMD Yukon-based HP Pavilion dv2 Ultrathin Notebook

By: arian farias

arian farias — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:14:18 +0000

yeah! i love amd products, always i recommend people use amd products, well something it have some bugs, but is very normal in this area, always i use amd platform n laptop with amd n nvidia o ati chip core, my actually laptop is a tuned acer aspire as5520. its work great.

By: Warand

Warand — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:13:29 +0000

I am AMD fanboy, i have acer notebook powered by AMD Turion X2.
I am glad to hear that about AMD Neo. I try to find ultra notebook in indonesia and then i will buy it.

By: Howard Chu

Howard Chu — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:12:48 +0000

While we’re on the topic of wishlists… Agreed, I’d like to see more AMD-based offerings from Acer, Asus, etc. My previous laptop is an Asus M6Ne and it’s still running great after 5 years. My HP dv5z is being sent back for repairs today, after only 5 months of use.

The closest to “ideal” laptop I’ve found so far, spec-wise, is a Dell Precision M4400 as it has backlit keyboard and WUXGA RGB-LED screen. It annoys me intensely that I can’t find any other laptop with these specs, with AMD inside.

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:12:06 +0000

Hello!
What about the Asus N20 12 inch compared to this? Greetings from Brazil!

By: Bobcaticus

Bobcaticus — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:11:38 +0000

What I need is a Notebook with an HD 4000 based graphics core which is faster than the HD 3200/HD3400 ones. I want a processor that as well as being low power and low cost is also speedy enough to do slight gaming at good frame rates at higher settings than low.

It would take advantage of things such as the XGP from Asus (I think) and/or the ability to play HD content.

It would have a battery life of 3-6 hours, or have two batteries in it, somehow.

It would be easy to upgrade and, ideally, take advantage of desktop hard drives.

By: Sascha

Sascha — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:10:41 +0000

Nice to see you guys back on track and to finally meet you in person.

Make it 10.2 inch and i am becoming an evangelist of this device

Cheers

Sascha

By: v.plessky

v.plessky — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:21:24 +0000

About Sales & Marketing part:

Please work more closely with Acer, ASUS, MSI to ensure that they would announce their products using Yukon platform without any delays.
And with support of a whole processor/GPU range.
HP is not competitive in EMEA with pricing for notebooks, vendors listed above offer far better prices.

By: v.plessky

v.plessky — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:28:31 +0000

”
Nice product, and Athlon Neo processor / Yukon platform is very promising.

I just hope you can get Linux supported for this platform from the very beginning.

There are still issues with Puma platform, hope you can ask engineers to fix those bugs:
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11541

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462637

I also hope you can push PC vendors to offer models without Windows (either with Linux of FreeDOS) – I don’t want to pay extra for the system I am not using.
“

By: pokwang

pokwang — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:28:03 +0000

” i’m glad that i didn’t jump on the netbook bandwagon yet as intel atom and graphics really sucks, a review from an asus top of the line netbook with an nvidia 9300m graphics had the atom badly lag from a video processing test and don’t ever ask how’s the intel graphics score on the test, you will just puke. this AMD offering looks interesting, but i also came across an article that says it only supports up to a 1 gig of ram, if this is true then this is not good, it should support at least up to 2 gigs of ram. well, i’ll wait when there’s more information and reviews on this platform, this might finally persuade me to buy one.
“

By: aji

aji — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:27:26 +0000

Good thing before to check before throwing it to market… what about the battery. Okay, the GMA 4000 sucks but it saves your battery and BIG time and i don’t want to carry those extra weight of battery just to add another half hour

By: (blank)

(blank) — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:27:04 +0000

How is the battery life / power consumption of this system compared to the 10″ netbook? comparatively similar? =P

By: Flemming

Flemming — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:26:36 +0000

“really looking forward to yukon platform. Then perhaps vendors like Raon Digital makes a netbook version (they have a Turion X2 version the most powerfull netbook on the market)- because when traveling a lot and if you dont want to spend many € on a laptop, the netbooks are perfects combined with HSDPA.

Btw. Asus Eee 901 has >6 hours battery time. Beside a pretty lame keyboard layout it is really nice. “

By: Howard Chu

Howard Chu — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:26:11 +0000

“Not to nitpick, but 1024×768 = 786,432, not 614,400…

I currently have a dv5z; I see that there’s an option for a backlit keyboard on the new dv3. I would love to have that feature on my laptop. I hope this becomes an option on more models.”

By: David

David — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:25:48 +0000

Very nice… I am looking forward to seeing the business / commercial version. Will partners be able to produce uAXT with the the Neo platform?

By: Kip

Kip — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:25:20 +0000

Oh Man! I knew AMD had something up it sleeve. I just picked up a hp tx2550z. Luv it. But this i can see takes the cake. Order one for me. I live off the grid. It would fit my wattage usage! Gj

By: carl0ski

carl0ski — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:24:51 +0000

“All I want is an affordable multimedia Laptop with HDMI.
An ETA for Australian release?
and is NEO dual core?

This is a portable version of my current HDTV PC
AMD Athlon X2 + ATI 780G so yes please”

By: Hoohoo

Hoohoo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:24:30 +0000

Nice work. Now push it as hard as you can at the other vendors.

By: Leonard De Vinci

Leonard De Vinci — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:24:05 +0000

“Mobility is definitely the way of the future.
I have computer product that I think would be the next progression of the netbook/notebook development. Is there any way I can contact you or AMD?
Cheers,”

By: Cristian

Cristian — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:20:27 +0000

I love AMD. It is so good to see a company with honorable business practices achieving their goals and dazzling us with state of the art technology and innovation …

By: J.R.

J.R. — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:20:04 +0000

I am so pumped about this thing. I’ve sort of been on the fence about netbooks, but while cool, they just didn’t offer enough to make it worthwhile. The one thing that this notebook absolutely needs is good battery life. If it can 5-6 hours with the extended life battery, I’ll be first in line. I’m just really digging it.