Sony Offering AMD CPUs in VAIO Notebooks Discussion

[Charles P. Jefferies]

Sony is now offering AMD processors in a select number of VAIO notebooks, the first time it has done so in several years.

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[Ahbeyvuhgehduh]

Must admit this kinda surprised me ... have you all come across any "official reasoning" why they are trying this again?

[Charles P. Jefferies]

AMD probably made them an offer they couldn't refuse?

The pricing on these notebooks is good - $650 nets a notebook with a dual-core processor, 4GB of RAM, and a Blu-ray drive.

[MidnightSun]

Five years ago, if you told me Sony and affordable could be put in one sentence, I would've called you crazy. The new AMD quad-core options seem quite compelling - they use less power than Intel's current quad-core options, although admittedly, they are more in-line performance-wise with the upper-end Core i5 options. Performance-wise, though, I'm not opposed to AMD offerings - the only reason why I've tended to avoid AMD in recent years is that their chips' power usage and heat output can't compete with Intel's offerings.