Ignore my littel red "m".
Since I know the future looks to be 64-bit and even dual-core 64-bit, I'd pick the AMD 64 to future proof my purchase. There are 64-bit apps and operating systems today. Not tomorrow. XP64 is a free 1 year license, Virtual Dub (which I use) is also in 64-bit...
The emachine AMD 64 may be 1,250 or so about town and has a few more features but hate the name...
Bob
I was in Office Depot the other day and they had a Compaq R3230 with 15.0" XGA TFT Display, Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHZ Processor, 512mb ram, 60 gig hd, win xp pro, cd writer, ATI Mobiliy Radeon 900 with 128 dedicated ram cost $1329.99 and then there is the compaq from bestbuy with the amd 64 bit processor 3200+ but the video card is only a geforce 440 go with 64 mb dedicated video. The one at best buy is $1,479.99. Which is a better computer? I'm not to concerned about the dvd writer because I have one on my desktop already.
-andrew

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