HP gives AMD boost with new business laptops

From InfoWorld: Hewlett-Packard introduced seven laptops with Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming laptop chips on Wednesday, boosting efforts for the chip designer's efforts to catch up with rival Intel.

The new AMD-based ProBook laptops are up to 69 percent faster and offer up to 72 percent more battery life than earlier laptops based on AMD processors, said Joanne Bugos, business notebook marketing manager at HP. These new chips include many architectural improvements that help AMD close the power and performance gap with Intel, Bugos said.

The new laptops -- including three ProBook S-series and two ProBook B-series laptops -- will come with AMD's Phenom II, Turion II and Athlon II and V-series processors. The laptops will include dual-core processors and AMD's first triple-core and quad-core laptop chips.

This is the company's largest introduction of laptops with AMD chips, Bugos said. HP also announced two ProBooks based on Intel processors.

Some power improvements could stretch the AMD-based laptops' battery life beyond five hours, a 72 percent improvement from laptops with AMD's older chips. Laptops based on Intel chips, however, still offer some performance advantages and better battery life in excess of six hours, Bugos said.

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