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AMD athlon-64

by rdfritz Sep 13, 2005 10:56PM PDT

Is this a good choice for a for a notebook that won't be out dated in the few years..also is this a good price?? Thank's for your help... Ron


3-year HP Express Repair Extended Service Plan for HP Pavilion and Compaq Presario Notebook PCs
U4819A $179.99 $179.99
Compaq Presario R4000 customizable Notebook PC
PN495AV
? Microsoft(R) Windows(R) XP Professional with SP2
? AMD Athlon(TM) 64 3800+ (2.4GHz/512KB L2 Cache)
? 15.4" WXGA BrightView Widescreen (1280x800)
? 128MB ATI RADEON(R) XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory(TM)
? 1.0GB DDR SDRAM (2x512MB)
? 80 GB 5400 RPM Hard Drive
? LightScribe 8x DVD+/-RW&CD-RW Combo w/Double Layer
? Combo including DigitalMedia Deluxe & MyDVD Deluxe
? 54g(TM) Integ. Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN & Bluetooth
? 12 Cell Lithium Ion Battery
? Microsoft(R) Office 2003 Basic
? Norton AntiVirus 2005 - 15 Mo Subscription
? hpshopping in-box envelope
$1,655.98

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Nice.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 13, 2005 10:59PM PDT

I see you have almost everything in that one. If you are playing video games, see if the video can be upgraded.

I have the R3000 64bit and it's been very nice.

Bob

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Video can't be upgraded
by Technojunkie2 Sep 13, 2005 11:54PM PDT

The zv6000's video is soldered to the motherboard. Its Radeon 200M plus 128MB of dedicated video memory is a little slower than a Radeon X300. For gaming I'd find an AMD Turion notebook with a Radeon X700 but for work and light gaming you don't need anything better than the 200M.

I like my 64-bit zv5000 too Happy. Did you know you can swap in Mobile Athlon 64 CPUs into the zv5000 and R3000 notebooks so it'll run cooler and not run the fan all the time? It's the only notebook I can think of that makes it easy to get to the CPU. There's a big thread about it here:
http://www.r3000forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=582

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Nice machines. But what about the R4000 ?
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 14, 2005 2:33AM PDT

The R4000 has such customizing from what I see.

Bob

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no other available
by rdfritz Sep 14, 2005 2:52AM PDT

That was the best they had to offer on the R4000 ,Bob

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Try these options.
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 14, 2005 3:10AM PDT

"the 128MB ATI Radeon

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R4000 hard drive
by rdfritz Sep 20, 2005 10:30PM PDT

Why is it that they don't offer the 5400rpm drive at this time,only 4200rpm --

Ron

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Why? "The money."
by r. proffitt Forum moderator Sep 20, 2005 10:33PM PDT

It's that simple. The 4200 drives are still cheaper and may give the machine some minutes extra on battery power.

Bob

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