AMD has a three-pronged assault going out today: at the bottom (in terms of performance) is their 2013 AMD Elite Mobility Platform, formerly codenamed Temash. Next up is the newly christened 2013 AMD Mainstream APU Platform, aka Kabini. And at the higher end of the spectrum we’re also getting the Richland update to Trinity, which AMD is calling their 2013 Elite Performance APU Platform. We’ll cover all of these with individual Pipeline pieces, starting with Kabini. Here’s the overview of the Kabini parts: In total there are five new Kabini APUs launching: one 25W part, three 15W parts, and one 9W offering. The hardware is the same from the architectural side of things, with the A-Series parts coming with four Jaguar CPU cores and supporting...

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NVIDIA R319 Series Beta Driver 320.00 Available

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Best Gaming Notebooks, April 2013

For this week’s update of our laptop/notebook recommendations, we turn our eye towards the mobile gaming sector—and no, we’re not including tablets in this category, even though they can...

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Best Budget Laptops, April 2013

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Best Budget Ultrabook, March 2013

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Hardware Tricks: Can You Fix a Failing Mobile GPU with a Hair Dryer?

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Dell XPS 12 Review: A Jack of All Trades Flipscreen Ultrabook

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Vizio Thin+Light CT15: Something New and Edgy

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Samsung Laptop UEFI Bugs: Not Just for Linux

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3DMark for Windows Launches; We Test It with Various Laptops

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Updating AnandTech’s 2013 Mobile Benchmark Suite (RFC)

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HP Leaks Their First Chromebook

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Acer C7 Chromebook Review

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Lenovo Introduces Rugged Chromebook Aimed at K-12

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16 by Jarred Walton on 1/17/2013

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