Know of any good A64 laptops

Kinda in the market for one. Anyone know of any good ones?

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to XT(420/730)

Ohhhhh yeah daddy knows about voodoopc machines very well. Unfortunately I do not have that kind of cash. I looked at the Compaqs but do not like the support that comes with them. I dont even wanna get started with the e-machines. Well I was looking into the Dell Inspirion 9100 but they are all Intel chips. Cool thing is that I have inside sources in Dell and can get a mad discount.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to XT(420/730)

... ditto.





why not get a 'mad discount' on a Dell; sell it, and buy your A64?

oh, and IMO, I would just as soon go for a Compaq/HP as I would a Dell.

RaPTuRe

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?

A good Athlon64 notebook is available from eMachines.

The e6805 which has an A64 3000+ mobile chip, 512 Megs of PC 2700 RAM, 60 Gig HD, 24 x 4 USB 2.0 and 1 firewire port(s), and built in wireless.

It is based on the Arima W720K8. Almost no major computer dealer designs and builds their own laptops.

the screen is a 1280 x 800 resolustion widescreen. it's very bright and is powered well by the 64 Meg 9600 Radeon.

You can buy it on the emachine's website or look at it in person at Best Buy. I'm aware that people will say that eMachines suck and they did 3 or 4 years ago. Things have changed. eMachines is now owned by Gateway and people have been saying good things about the 68xx line of laptops on different boards.

It came with Norton Antivirus, Roxio Easy CD and DVD Creator 6, and microsoft works installed. Also had
quicktime, winamp 2, and realplayer intstalled. pretty good package.

Also it came with 3 restore CD's

I've followed what people posted about the 68xx series on www.hardforums.com, www.notebookforums.com, and
forums.anandtech.com. What I've read on those boards
convinced me to buy one.

The price was a big factor. $1499. I wanted the latest Dell or Alienware but those cost upwards of a grand more for a machine with similar specs. If you are still wary you can get a 3 year extended warrantee. Best Buy had a 200 dollor mail in rebate at the time I got it so I paid about $1800 total in the middle of May for it.

So far I've played UT 2003 on this machine at 1280 x 800 with all the goodies except AA and AF and I get 40 - 70 frames per second. I used fraps to check.

Playing CoH heroes I get about 20 - 40 frames per second with some details toned down slightly.

Pluses:

bright screen,
plays all the games I want it to for now.
fairly good keyboard I like the feel, although the
space bar is kinda small (got used to it)
Fairly good software package.
HD and wireless PCI and one Memory Module easily
accessible.
You can upgrade the CPU if you're really adventurous



Minuses:
Fairly heavy 7 or 8 pounds. (not really a problem though).
Non upgradable GPU
Only one Memory Module accessible without voiding the
warrantee.
Norton Antivirus pretty obnoxious I have to disable auto-
protect to play games otherwise there are lag spikes.

All in All it's a good machine especially if you look at similarly specced machines from Dell or Compaq or Toshiba.
Can't beat the features for the price.

I ran 3dmark '03 just now and got 2449 3dmarks. It's what I usually get. I haven't disabled every background program but I ran it after a boot.

As I said in my previous post I get 40 - 70 fps in UT 2004 at 1280 by 800 with the eyecandy turned up pretty high.

I don't know the 3dmark 2001 score because it won't run. I'm not going to bother trying to troubleshoot the problem because aside from that the laptop runs all the games I play well.

looking at other posts I've seen people get 3dmark 2001 scores in the 9000+ range without overclocking.

if you overclock you can get another 1000 to 2000 3dMarks in 3dMark 2001. People have said that the GPU is very overclockable in posts on the bulletin boards I've mentioned.

Yeah I was looking into the a64 3200. Wish they used pc3200 memory Those e-machines are pretty sweet looking and not bulky like the Inspirom 9100 which is thick as a dictionary. I got alot the thinking to do.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to XT(420/730)

Way ahead there buddy! Dell lowest for the Inspiron 9100 I believe is 256mb. I want to put 2 512 sticks in it and know Dell will charge an arm and a leg for it. Know of any good notebook RAM? I was going for GEIL again.

Mobile Barton 2500+ @ 2420mhz 11x220 1.7v
Asus A7N8X Dlx 440 FSB
1gb Geil GD pc3500 Dual Channel (2-3-3-6)
Segata 80gb SATA 8.5ms seek
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro to XT(420/730)

If you want to get a Dell try the 8600 inspiron cause you can get with the newer Pentium M CPU's now and it is closer than the Mobile Pentium 4 to the Athlon 64 in design philosophy (imho). In terms of larger L2 cache and better FPU performance than the P4 mobile or desktop. Plus, it has the best battery life of any CPU put in a laptop.

It'll be more expensive even with just 256 megabytes of RAM, but Dell does have arguably the best support for laptops as far as I know. Customer support is the hit you take if you buy an eMachine. However the 3 yeah warrantee from Best Buy is very good. For example they'll replace the battery when the one that comes with the lappy starts to degrade in performance for free.

as much as Dell support may suck - it is still the best out of all of them (home/home office based). And I've found that if you know your way around it, it can be very good - and it does have the best reputation (as bad as it might sound).

RaPTuRe

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?

That is so ironic! Surprisingly I've found crucial RAM to be less than compatible once or twice. Although for some reason I am lead to believe that Crucial have used Samsung chips in the past...

RaPTuRe

Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk?