LOL_Wut_Axel
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You can say this all you want, but that doesn't make it true.
The vast majority of people gaming on laptops are not enthusiasts. They're normal people with a laptop as their main/only PC that happen to play some light games (as ElFenix said, MMOs in particular).
When I played FFXI, I'd wager that more than half of my in game friends used their laptops, some with horrendous IGPs.
Remember that most gamers are "casual" gamers these days. These are also the same people who don't need gobs of CPU power to listen to MP3s and watch cat videos on youtube. AMD is in a good position to nail that market with Trinity. :thumbsup:
Same thing we heard with Llano. Same thing I said before: we know how that ended.
no there aren't any other reasons at all why sandy could have left llano in the dust. surely can't have anything to do with sheer retail availability or the strength of intel's brand name. couldn't have anything at all to do with the lack of serious research people put into laptop (and just about every other aside from car) purchases.
Llano was widely available in retail, even if in less numbers than SB.
Let me give you a clue: because for the vast majority of consumers Intel works as well or better and has competitive pricing not to mention a stronger brand name. If AMD wants to succeed, they need to be better than Intel and not as-good or worse. That means that they can't just be as good in battery life, chassis size, or overall performance: they need to be better. If they're not, people will go with Intel by default and that's the situation we're at now.