HP debuts Puma laptops

NEW DELHI: Hewlett-Packard recently launched eight laptop models based on Puma chip platform from Advanced Micro Devices.

These include the Pavilion dv4, Pavilion dv5, Pavilion dv7 and Compaq Presario CQ50.

Puma, unveiled at the Computex exhibition in Taipei, includes a dual-core Turion X2 Ultra processor, an M780 chipset and a Wi-Fi chip. The notebooks also come with ATI's Radeon HD 3000 graphics chips.

One of the main advantages of the Puma platform is the chipset, which includes a hardware decoder for high-definition video formats, such as Blu-ray. With this feature, the processor utilisation rate remains low while watching a high-definition video.

Previous AMD products, as well as Intel's current notebook chips, relied on the processor for this task.