"We ought to be able to compete and serve that market," Huang told Reuters in the wake of Intel's €1.06 billion slap at the hands of the European Commission, which found Intel guilty of attempting to freeze competitor AMD out of the market through OEM rebates and incentives. Intel immediately dismissed Huang's harangue as cobblers, with a spokesperson insisting "We compete fairly." He added Chipzilla never forced bundles on OEMs and that they were free to choose to buy Atom alone or as part of a processor/chipset bundle.

Powering the Pavilion dv5-1250us is the AMD Turion X2 RM-80 dual core mobile processor. This is a switch away from the Intel CPUs used in previous dv5 quick ship version. Performance is not quite up to the level of the Intel Core 2 Duo's found in most competing systems but for some this may not be a huge issue. The switch though allows it to cut the cost of the system several hundred dollars compared to many similarly equipped 15.4-inch laptops.

AMD plans to showcase its new notebook platform (Tigris) at Computex 2009, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report. The new platform consists a 45nm dual-core Caspian CPU, RS880M chipsets, a 55nm or 40nm M9X GPU.

It seems MSI is working on the X410 and X610, both Yukon based. Both should be available with AMD IGPs, as well as discrete HD 4330 graphics with 512MB of memory. However, you won't find AMD chips in smaller models, probably due to unfavorable thermals. At this point we're not sure about dual-core Congo CPUs either.

Because the AMD chip is a single processor, it provides less punch than Intel's two-core variety. But a computer's overall performance depends on both the main processor and the graphics processor. Intel integrates these functions in the microprocessor, while AMD compensates by adding extra graphics technology from its subsidiary, ATI. In the dv2, this combination delivers Blu-ray high-definition movies, something the laptop could not do if it relied on the processor alone.

You can pick one up here starting at $699.