I suppose if you have a great product the first thing that I would do is get as much as possible positive media attention by showing how much better the product with your product is in the areas it excels in. The main focus in a review with the Carrizo laptops would be:
Is it good enough for everyday tasks and the same as the Intel system in this respect.
Can't it perform well enough to play some games? And what about on batter?
Does it have the alleged efficiency?
Is the rest of the config build as a premium product or a pile of junk?
So that is why I'm showing skepticism. AMD spent thousands of AMD's Reichsmarks to have Shuttle build prototypes to showcase the best config of Carrizo to their OEMs. Why not bring that to market they press this we are not a system company bla bla. But if it's good why not release a great product and overwhelm the mainstream crowd that has never even heard of AMD.
They be like "AMD what is that does it come with windows?" and then when the product is best in class in a segment like longest Facebook whore-ing on a single charge that positive attention will create brand awareness. Even negative PR is good for AMD because really nobody notices them.
No offense but I'm surprised to see that level of skepticism from you but you bring up a good point, why hasn't amd sent out halo laptops with Carizzo to reviewers?
Just preventing myself from overhyping and getting disappointed in the end like what happened to me with Core-m. Though I should say it wasn't overhyping it was just hyping it was Intel that did the over part. Talking about how good their 14nm node was at first.
It s useless to send some gear to the usual troll reviewing sites, and get the product massacred by conveniently selected benches and games settings to please the biggest advertisement buyer of the site....
You think seriously that they should let all those enginering efforts crushed by "softs" a la 3D Particle, or Agitsoft that publicly recommend Intel only, or by the Intel designed WebXPRT when it s not Sysmark..?..
They better send a few samples to a limited numbers of sites like Computerbase.de, Golem.de, Hardware.fr but not to the sites that use discutable and obviously rigged benches, heck even WCCFtech would be better than getting through those hand sleighted reviews.
Or or or...
They could send one to me I would review it. Though I don't have recent stuff to compare it to I'm owner of a 2630qm, 2670qm, core duo something, a8 6410 and fx 7500 based notebooks to compare. I also have various desktops to compare it to.
Note a bad idea to send WCCFtech some they get a lot of hype going with their stupid rumours all the time. Anyways Extremetech would be a good idea they have those in depth architecture analysis-es and I'm sure they would put out a well made review without cherry picking.