Model Brand TOSHIBA
Series Satellite
Model U405D-S2848
Part# PSU48U-004002
General
Operating System Windows Vista Home Premium
CPU Type AMD Turion X2 RM-70(2.0GHz)
Screen 13.3" WXGA
Memory Size 3GB DDR2
Hard Disk 250GB
Optical Drive DVD Super Multi
Graphics Card ATI Radeon 3100
Video Memory shared memory
Communication Modem, LAN and WLAN
Card slot 1 x Express Card
Dimensions 12.4" x 9.0" x 1.13-1.38"
Weight Starting at 4.41 lbs.

The three Puma-based notebooks feature panel sizes of 12.1-, 14.1- and 15.4-inch and are priced between NT$23,900-29,900 (US$786-983). The two Intel Centrino 2-based notebooks are priced around NT$32,900-39,900.

The notebooks are manufactured by Compal.

We tested the $649 Compaq Presario CQ50-115NR, a retail-only fixed configuration that incorporates a generous 3GB of RAM and a low-cost 2.0GHz AMD Turion X2 RM-70 dual-core processor. Though that's one of AMD's latest processor models, it didn't have enough oomph to compete with laptops based on Intel's Core 2 Duo processor on CNET Labs' benchmarks. We could forgive the lag if the Presario CQ50 were less expensive than the competition, but you'll pay less for Dell's entry-level Inspiron 1525-121B; our favorite in this budget category, the Sony VAIO NR430, provides significantly better performance and battery life, plus a few more features, for just $30 more than the Presario.

But all the buzz in the world isn’t much good if the supply of product lets you down. Our investigations have even revealed that some notebook manufacturers were in a position to launch AMD Puma SKUs very close to the launch date but, in the UK at least, found their efforts to co-operatively market their AMD Puma offerings, frustrated by the complexities of trying to work with AMD sales personnel on such a matter. Again, this seems to be an execution own-goal by AMD. It knew it had a window of opportunity push Puma into the wild and knew it had to exploit it and yet it hasn’t. Regardless of any technology advantages AMD Puma continues to have over Centrino 2, the genie is out of the bottle now and the predator may well have missed its chance.

The US is kind of ignored here because it is unimportant. Ok, so the US is unimportant, but Texas is important. Clearly. Anyway, if you look at Pat Moorehead's blog you see others talking about wanting Pumas.

Puma platform is composed from three elements. First is processor AMD Turion X2 Ultra, second is motherboard with AMD chipset 7th series (M780G, M780V or M780) and the third is WiFi card that supports 802.11 a/b/g/n standards. Turion X2 Ultra is developed under code name Griffin and represents hybrid of old K8 and new K10 architecture. It is made in 65 nm process and has 2MB L2 cache memory (1MB for each core) and it’s brought up few interesting solutions for consumption reduction, which is one of priorities for notebooks. Possibility that each core and northbridge can work on different voltages (all together there are three different voltages) is great innovation. Voltage can be changed in several steps. Just as reminder, Phenom has similar possibilities but separate voltage values can be set only for CPU and NB, while both cores working on same voltage. Turion X2 Ultra is processor with two cores and it is well known fact that most applications will work fine with just one core. Turion X2 Ultra can lower clock of one core (depending on load) separately from other and also, it can turn it off, if there is need for that. Combination of power and clock reduction enables considerable power saving. Of course, all this is happening dynamically and for end user completely unnoticed.