I have seen computer companies donating PCs to charities, but it is nice to see money from the sales of PCs helps as well. Nice work, HP!

Hewlett-Packard (HP) will launch its first notebook based on AMD’s Turion mobile processor as part of a benefit for cyclist Lance Armstrong’s foundation, the companies announced Friday.

The HP Special Edition L2000 notebook PC comes with various AMD Turion processors at a starting price of $999. HP and AMD will donate $50 from the sale of each notebook to the Lance Armstrong Foundation, a charitable organization founded by the six-time Tour de France champion that raises money for cancer research and educational programs.

Turion is AMD’s first real attempt to compete directly with Intel’s (Profile, Products, Articles) Pentium M notebook processor. AMD’s Athlon 64 and Athlon XP processors have been used in heavy performance notebooks for years, but the company is now trying to get its chips into thinner and lighter notebooks, a category dominated by the Pentium M. [Read the rest]