AMD and Intel Mobile Rematch: Gateway NV5933u vs. Acer 5542

Our previous comparison between AMD and Intel laptops is now a year old, and plenty has changed since then. With a couple of the more recent releases on hand, it's a good time for another head-to-head comparison. Unfortunately, getting the latest AMD-based laptops can be tricky, so we don't have their recently announced "Vision 2" platform (aka Danube/Nile) available for testing (yet). However, there are still many "old" AMD Vision laptops on the market, as well as a ton of Intel i3/i5 units, so we feel it's still useful to see how the two platforms compare. Does AMD have more going for it than the value proposition? Can anyone provide an IGP that's fit for gaming? That's what we aim to find out.

More: continued here