AMD Fusion A-Series APUs For Desktop Are Now In The Market

When AMD first released its brand new Accelerated Processor Unit (APU) products which combines CPU and GPU into one single processor, the initial line-up – C-Series and E-Series – were focused on low-power PC and budget market. Only now, the more powerful and more capable APU have started to arrive into the market in the form of AMD Fusion A-Series APUs that was previously codenamed as “Llano”.

Following the release of AMD Fusion A-Series APUs for mobile last month, the first batch of the new AMD Fusion A-Series APUs for desktop has just arrived into the market in two different flavors: the A8-3850 and A6-3650. As both are quad-core processor with thermal design power of 100W, they can be differentiated through their CPU and GPU clock speed together with the type and amount of Radeon graphics cores within them; as listed below:

The new AMD Fusion A8-3850 and A6-3650 APUs are priced at around RM 407 and RM 346 respectively. Contact you favorite retailer to find out more about them or visit www.amd.com. 

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Mac OS X Lion Coming On The 14th, MacBook Air Soon After.

According to the good people over at TUAW, their sources have received word that Apple is planning to pull all nighters on July 13th in their retail stores. Usually when Apple pulls this sort of thing, it could only mean one thing, a new product release the next day. If the timeline is to be believed, it looks like Mac OS X 10.7 Lion will be released to the general public on the 14th July via the Mac App Store. Why the overnighter then if it wont be available in store? Apparently Apple is upgrading the machines in store to make sure Lion runs smoothly on them.

It looks like soon after the launch of Lion, Apple is looking to refresh the MacBook Air shortly after, quite possibly within a week. According to Appleinsider, the hardware was ready to go but Apple held them back wanting to wait to ship them with Lion pre-installed.

OS X Lion will be available for US$29.99 from the Mac App Store, if you don't have fast internet, you're out of luck so far. Go bug someone with Unifi to let you leech off their connection for a few hours.

(Source: TUAW)

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