amd said llano would have 10.5hrs battery life, over 2.5hrs more than intel that turned out to be a lie, its less power efficient than the quad sandy bridge and 10.5hrs was only achievable with 40% screen brightness which doesn't count.
So taking amd's word of 50% faster means nothing to me.
Would be nice if it was 50% faster as llano laptops are slow, over twice as slow in x264 encoding.
Anyway intel will probably have to give some nice cuts to core i3/i5 laptop and desktop cpu's as a result of llano and bulldozer which will be nice for everyone. They will have to give us better on-die graphics too now that amd's destroys the i5 2600k's built-in gpu.
I'm not hopeful about bulldozer's performance anymore having looked at llano and amd's own benchmarks.
Its less power efficient despite those Anandtech benchmarks showing they are higher, because the ACTUAL battery life was longer on the quad core, which
HAD A BIGGER BATTERY.
THe relative battery life, IE minutes per Wh on the battery rating, 7.91 Idle for the Llano vs 6.63 for the Quad sandybridge.
So year, you're right, when you misread the benchmarks completely and ignore the fact that the quad core laptops came with much bigger capacity batteries, yes, you will come to the conclusion you did.
When you factor in size of the battery, the quad core Sandy is behind Llano in EVERY test, not always by a lot, though it is at Idle, but its certainly, unquestionably not less power efficient as you say.
This is all ignoring the really quite poor testing, Pcmark 7, its ruddy hard to benchmark these days and Anandtech are, lets say, firmly show their bias for Intel, frequently.
Llano wasn't ever supposed to be the best cpu ever, it was supposed to give you great all around performance, great battery life, gaming, and cheap prices, it does all of that.
if you want a professional Cad laptop with a top end CPU, why would you be looking at a Llano anyway. Gaming, Llano price wise literally destroys anything Intel have price/performance, everything IGP.
Then we could also mention newish Llano stuff is essentially late last gen Llano's, with Bulldozer version Llano's right on its tail it would seem.
Llano, for its intended purpose, is fantastic value, battery, gaming performance, out right cpu performance, no, how many people buy a $600 laptop for outright CPU performance......... not many people.
