Practically two years to the day after the launch of Intel’s vPro platform, AMD has unveiled the "Business Class", a platform destined to PC professionals which should amongst other things be equipped with a 780V chipset and one of 4 "new" processors; the Phenom X4 9600B, X3 8600B or Athlon 1640B and X2 4450B.
In practice, there are no blatant differences compared to the current line, but we can see that the Phenom "B" are, at least in theory,
slightly more expensive than the xx50. The Business Class has already been adopted by the 5 major players: Lenovo (ThinkCentre), Dell (OptiPlex 740), HP (Compaq dc5850), Acer (Veriton M420) and Fujitsu Siemens (ESPRIMO E5625) and logically they should benefit from better conditions than certain other distributors of this brand.
Note that "
the Puma", the next mobile platform should also come in a "Business Class" version when AMD produces the Griffin which will have an acceptable level of power consumption.
