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Originally Posted by
Mad Pistol 
The A10 and A8 Trinity chips are very capable platforms. For reference, My old Pentium 4 2.8Ghz Northwood desktop with a 6800 GT 256mb card and 1.5GB DDR RAM got about 11,500 points in 3DMark03. This laptop with INTEGRATED GRAPHICS gets over 21,000 points. Bear in mind that 3DMark03 is a single-threaded program, and the 6800 GT only had support for DX9.0c and SM3.0.
Of course the E-series AMD APU's were slow. They were designed for netbooks and other ULP platforms. The A10 and A8 trinity CPUs are designed for modern workloads and media in laptops. I've had no issue running 1080P content on youtube or HD content on Netflix. The laptop doesn't even bat an eyelash with those sorts of workloads. The same goes for anything that requires number crunching and compute-based tasks.
To put it simply, AMD did it right with Trinity. Put an i5 laptop and an A10 or A8 laptop next to each other, and try and tell the difference They are both highly responsive and usable platforms. The only way you're going to see a difference without benchmarking the systems is by running a game, and in that case, AMD's platform will perform better.
That's good to hear. I was just stating my experience, and I know I posted about a completely different platform in general.
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Originally Posted by
Tsumi
For someone who's been here so long with so many posts, you have a surprising lack of knowledge about modern hardware. Then again, that is probably why you bought a Mac.
The E-series was very low power. You would have had the same exact terrible experience with one of the older Intel Atom processors, which also targets the same segment. I believe even the current Atom processors don't handle HD content very well. The newer E-series have more processing power, but I'm not sure if they can handle HD content.
You took a shot at me, and then didn't back it up? Alright. I bought a Mac because no other 'Ultrabook' could be had for the same price with the same quality. Good try.
Also, I realize that, and you restated what I even said in the first line...
Anyhow, the E-350 handled HD content fine when hardware acceleration was available. Hulu Plus HD ran like a charm. Netflix, however, uses Silverlight which makes any AMD CPU below about 2GHz crawl, regardless if it was a dual-core, or a single-core CPU. Although Trinity would be the exception here.
Also, before knocking someone next time, try to wrap your mind around the actual intent of my/their post. It was opinion-based, and I stated that I made a bad choice, and I know it. Someone else answered with reason, I know you can too next time
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