I honestly not to sure what the big fuss about Lano is so far.... AMD is really starting to tick me off when they show these demos as they pick as many GPU accelerated apps to show off. Now I realize that they are comparing similar "platforms" and associated costs. for the average home user but the problem is they are not using apps that the home user would use... they are using a wide range of specialty apps that support OpenCL acceleration. a question for everyone on XS....

how many OpenCL apps do you use on a regular basis? I know that I use NONE. in fact I have NEVER used an OpenCL accelerated app for... anything really. And I'm a power user... The chances of an average home user that would be using the type of system demoed, using a single GPU accelerated app (let alone 3) is extremely small. The only apps that I have seen that a home user would use that support GPU based acceleration are based on CUDA.

The part of the picture AMD does not show you however is the CPU based performance. Which I can assure you (unless AMD discovered something magical) is nothing compared to an i7 2600. I think the average home user would notice a much higher performance increase in day to day computing in using a faster CPU system compared to a faster GPU system... the average consumer uses Windows Live Movie maker, IE 9, Windows Live mail and maybe photoshop... none of which support GPU acceleration on AMD based GPU's and all of which will greatly benefit from a faster CPU.

What I do LIKE about fusion however is the gaming potential it provides for cheap people. a 400SP integrated GPU is far better than any integrated GPU form any camp... so that promising. However if you have any type of money you are still be off with even a 5570 1GB card as the RAM bandwidth going into a Lano chips GPU aspect can only be so much... not to mention shared system RAM...

I'm all for AMD making faster integrated GPU's but I think they need to focus more on the CPU performance side first as that was most people are going to notice and want more of...