re: you have yet to acknowledge the intel notebook only had 512 meg of slower DDR2 Vs. 1gig of 667 DDR2 for the AMD notebook
I doubt that it is possible to share more than 128M of memory for video for either notebook. If we were talking about gaming software, I'd agree with you that a big performance hit was possible. But these PCMark/3DMark programs are pint-sized and purposely designed to fit entirely in cache, so main memory speed is irrelevant anyway with most of the memory access occurring between the graphics chip and memory. In any event the Intel FSB could not handle faster memory anyway.
You also neglected to point out that both notebooks used a single DIMM, killing dual-channel access. Doesn't hurt the Yonah, because the FSB is max'ed out anyway, but cuts the potential memory bandwidth of the X2 model in half. No matter, it beats Yonah anyway. "The model we tested was also equipped with 1 GB of memory, which occupies one of the two available expansion slots. Sadly this voids dual channel memory access, but it does allow for easy expansion at a later time."
The Intel notebook was one you could of bought in feb 06, the AMD one only became available in July, august 06
No, it was NOT possible to buy an MSI Yonah notebook in February as you claim. Perhaps you didn't notice this line in the S271 (Turion X2) review: "One of the newest offerings in this range is the Mega Book S271, which we already looked at briefly in a test against its direct competition: the Mega Book S262." hardware.info
So they already had an S271 when they tested the S262.
Apple was getting all the production until March or April. Want more proof? Look at the DATES for all the reviews of the S262 Notebook: notebookcheck.net
3 in May, 3 in July, 2 in September
Nothing in February, March OR April, and reviewers get their hardware earlier than the rest of us.
But there's even better embarrassing things for Intel in the review of the latest incarnation of the MSI series -- the ultra-cheap version with a Sempron 3200+ processor.
See here hardware.info
Pay particular attention to THIS: When looking at the performance of the single core MSI Mega Book S271 we were surprised to see that it in terms of graphics performance it outperformed the dual core model, though this was probably due to the use of newer drivers on this specific machine.
The puts Centrino Duo integrated graphics even lower on the totem pole -- looking at some of the details, a single core Sempron is 76% faster than Centrino Duo on 3DMark05, 108% faster in 3DMark06, 15% faster in PCMark05 graphics.
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