[vox] Replacement Laptop

Jonathan Stickel jjstickel at sbcglobal.net
Mon Feb 7 11:07:01 PST 2005


Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Jonathan Stickel said:
> 
>>Please get one with an AMD chipset; best yet, get athlon-64!  This will
>>narrow your options down.  Compaq and HP both have models with AMD64.
>>My wife is looking at an Avertec model since they are lighter.
> 
> 
> What is the advantage of getting one with an AMD chipset?
> 

1. Intel needs competition.
2. Better performance/price ratio.

And if you go with AMD64, you can run a 64bit operating system!  This
means a much more powerful and "efficient" machine.

Jonathan



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