A64 Notebooks?

RWBRWB Icrontian
edited June 2004 in Hardware
Where can you buy a good A64 notebook from?


CUASE I'M GETTIN ONE!!! :celebrate

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  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited May 2004
    Voodoo... there are some others that I can't think of off the top of my head, and there's always emachines, but the emachines one isn't as fast as the voodoo one. Also check out the PowerPro m5-6 which is, IMO, probably better than an A64 notebook because the Banias gives you better battery life, and between it and the 9700m, it should be on par with an A64 system in terms of performance.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2004
    I would still go for a Centrino LT over a 64 bit LT right now. They are just so beastly. Id really like a Dothan 2GHz LT.

    /me faints!
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    Centrino LT? Dothan LT? Just notebook versions of P4's?
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    I'd like to get the best possible for $1500, Radeon 9600 Pro(qual or better) preferred. Any CPU really...

    I know sagers are good, but are EMachines actually decent laptops, my past expeireinces with their desktops are less than desirable.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited May 2004
    LT=LapTop

    Centrino is the CPU Intel designed from the ground up for the Notebook. Not like the P4-M which is just a P4 put into a Laptop. The Dothan is the latest version of Centrino CPUs for LapTops.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited May 2004
    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1069301995506&skuId=6249703&type=product&cmp=++

    hows this puppy? Yeah it's emachines, but I can tweak it myself ;) Any comments on it? Anything better seen by anyone?
  • DanGDanG I AM CANADIAN Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    I would still go for a Centrino LT over a 64 bit LT right now. They are just so beastly. Id really like a Dothan 2GHz LT.

    * mmonnin faints!


    Mmmm, 2MB cache. :respect:
  • edited June 2004
    RWB wrote:
    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=1069301995506&skuId=6249703&type=product&cmp=++

    hows this puppy? Yeah it's emachines, but I can tweak it myself ;) Any comments on it? Anything better seen by anyone?

    Those look like some nice machines for the price, RWB.
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited June 2004
    I just bought myself an eMachines M6809 yesterday (I wanted the M6805, but the M6809 has two rebates right now, making it the same after-rebate price). So far I love it. I've gotten a little bit of lag both loading and playing UT2K4 @ 1280x800 resolution with medium settings on all the other graphics options. I think the load lag comes from the fact that it uses a 4200 RPM hard drive... but the graphics card isn't truly up to the task of cutting-edge graphics. I'll have to be satisfied with medium settings on everything. Halo ran just fine at 1024x768 (though a bit squished because of the widescreen) and I ran AoM:Titans at 1024x768 with no problems as well (I think I can raise that one).

    Overall, I'm very impressed with what you get out of such a notebook. Possible future upgrades for me are a bit more RAM, and a faster hard drive.

    My most advanced PC is now my notebook; No desktop PC I've ever built has had a 64-bit processor. None of my desktop PCs have DVD-burners either...

    I'm taking the notebook to LANWAR this weekend to be my primary gaming machine. I'll post back with my review of it after the weekend.
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