About the AMD laptop heat problem
The Sun Herald published an article named “AMD laptop has heat problem” that talks about the laptops based on the AMD Turion 64 processor. The Hewlett-Packard Co.’s Special Edition L2000 “LiveStrong” notebook is used for testing.
While watching movies with the notebook on my lap, my legs got uncomfortably warm and sweaty. It’s a problem I’ve never experienced with a Centrino system though high temperatures are fairly common with notebooks built with regular desktop processors inside.
But the LiveStrong’s biggest disappointment was its battery life. After fully charging the battery, I continuously played movies for about 1 hour, 45 minutes before it was depleted. By comparison, I got 2 hours and 10 minutes of play on a Centrino-based Toshiba Satellite M45-S351.
After recharging the battery, I ran another test by sitting on the couch and surfing the Web. This time, the LiveStrong notebook lived longer – 2 hours, 20 minutes – before the battery pooped out. That compares with 2 hours, 40 minutes on the Centrino system.
That said, comparisons are not precise.
Though the Turion and Centrino notebooks both had six-cell batteries, their microprocessors ran at slightly different clock speeds (1.8 gigahertz for the AMD-based HP notebook, 1.73 GHz for the Intel-based Toshiba).
Also, AMD is only supplying the microprocessor – the brains of the computer. Intel, on the other hand, requires PC makers to use the Intel Pentium M processor, an Intel chipset and an Intel wireless radio before they can use the Centrino brand name.
