Thank you for posting that. My 64-bit plan is in late April to maybe the next month and this news is news to me. I've been not looking at the laptop possibility, but with your post I googled and see there are a few 64-bit offerings now.
E-Machine was snapped up by Gateway so hang in there for the consolidation.
And you will see me write many times that this is a great idea to stave off obsoletion of a major purchase.
Bob
i am not too familiar with athlon because i have been a intel person myself but i am going to purchase a new laptop soon and i cant make up my mind. i was looking at my options and it came down to a Toshiba Satellite M30 Series or a Dell. I was in Best Buy and I happened to notice a Emachines Athlon 64. I am not that familiar with Athlon 64 but from what I have researched it seems to be pretty good for what I want to do, the only problem is that its in an e-machine laptop and they are the only ones offering it at this time. Does anyone know of e-machine's reliability?

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