Isn't the whole 'land on the barge thing' really just to get around the problem of not being able to launch into the correct inclinations over unpopulated land in the United States? The US isn't like Russia where they have bountiful tracts of emptiness. Therefore they have to launch over the...
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Yeah when I build a system for casual gamers, I just have them tell me what the most demanding game they want to play is and usually I just buying an APU.
I dunno, it has the same aura of disappointment that FX has become known for in the last few years.
That being said, they probably just want to retire the Athlon naming for apus with disabled igpu.
So better in DX11, worse in DX9. I'm just afraid that Intel has caught up and will surpass AMD in the last thing that it does really well on the CPU side next gen.
The main reason for getting an APU is getting a cheapo gaming system up an running as fast as possible in a small form factor.
There are also some power envelope considerations.