Turion Review

I stumbled upon this first review of the AMD Turion processor. It is basically a reworked AMD Mobile 64 chip. Its performance slots it in between the old (1 mb cache, 400 bus) and new (2 mb cache, 533 bus) Pentium M chips. No Centrino slayer here, but as clock speed ramps up at least it can keep pace with the Intel offerings. This is something AMD has not been able to do in the notebook processor department in forever.

The Acer Aspire 5000 is the first Mobile AMD Turion 64; system out of the gate. In addition to the new 1.6-GHz Turion 64, our test unit came with 512MB DDR memory and a 60GB hard drive, all for a value price of $1,099 direct. It's not for multimedia enthusiasts, but this value system will satisfy anyone looking for a straightforward mainstream notebook.