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Need some recomendation about chosing a laptop

Jan 18, 2005 12:36AM PST

Hello everybody, I'm a student who would like to purchase a notebook for around $1000 (refurb or used is fine). There are so many of them that i am having a hard time picking a right one. One that really got my attention though is eMachines 6809, what do you think about it?
- I need some power on my CPU
- Mostly for web browsing, sometimes gaming, and multimedia
- 1 or 2 hours of battery life will satisfy me.
- Would like to have AMD 64
- more HDD space
- CHEAPER than other same systems

If you could recommend which system is right for me, that would be great. Thanks very much.

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If my current laptop died...
Jan 18, 2005 12:46AM PST

That's on my list. But I bide my time for the newer mobile Athlon 64s...

Bob

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Athlon 64 notebooks
Jan 18, 2005 2:39AM PST

Note that Gateway and E-machines have merged so now at Best buy the former E-machines notebooks are in some cases now Gateways. HP/Compaq also sells Athlon 64 notebooks (see retail or HPshopping.com) -- the dedicated website for the Compaq R3000 and its HP sister counterpart is R3000forums.com

Yes, at this point, try to wait for the Athlon 64 low voltage cpu.

Currently Dell and Toshiba do not sell Athlon 64 chips at all but that may change if consumer pressure warrants it.

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Thanks...
Jan 18, 2005 6:50AM PST

Thanks for advice... i'll try to wait than Wink

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Mobile Athlon 64
Jan 18, 2005 7:12AM PST

You can get a Mobile Athlon 64 in many off-brand laptops even now, and the Acer Ferrari 3400 offers one. However, not only is that laptop very expensive, it uses the MA64-3200, which uses voltage almost as high as the old Athlon 64's. I think the forthcoming MA64's, the 2800 in particular, which run at lower clock speeds and a much lower voltage, should be making its debut in a couple of months.

The thing with that chip is, manufacturers who used Athlon 64's before shouldn't just slap that into one of these big, heavy machines. They should (and will) design much thinner, lighter notebooks to use that chip.