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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (215112)	10/27/2006 2:41:14 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 275872

re: He still has a point, that AMD's laptop is being compared to a six-month-old Intel laptop. Not true. The earliest reviews of the Intel laptop were mid-May. You apparently missed that the AMD laptop was obtained at the same time as the Intel laptop: 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. That particular model is based on Intel Centrino Duo technology, while the S271 covered in this article in equipped with an AMD Turion 64 X2 processor. http://www.hardware.info/en-US/articles/am5nbGpuZA/MSI_Megabook_S271__Review/ That was written 8/26/06, I can find no record of the earlier review alluded to, but aparently when the S262 was originally reviewed, the AMD-based S271 was already available. re: Of course, it's debatable whether there could ever be an apples-to-apples comparison between the components of any two laptops, since laptop design is highly integrated and not very modular at all. This is as close to apples to apples as I have ever seen. Newegg has them both, the AMD notebook has a larger hard drive, otherwise they have exactly the same dimensions, weight and features. The Turion version has both higher performance and longer battery life. Petz