[Descartes]

I am considering buying a laptop for university starting in October. What do you think of this laptop COMPAQ - AMD ATHLON 64 3500+? How do you rate it? I like the look of the Sony Viao, but are they worth the money?

[OMGWTF]

Well. It'll be faster/the same as the P4 laptops. But it'll have 64bit, so it'll work with the new windows, and it uses less power than the P4

I couldn't reccomend the AMD64's more. Thats a very good price to considering its got a huge harddrive and 1Gb RAM

[Steeeeevo]

WOW 64 BUT LAPTOP! Man I must have been living in a cave, didnt even know they were out yet! shame on me!

[PieMaster]

The batterly life will suck on it - it has a desktop processor. Youre talking about 4 or 5 times the power usage. If its for desktop replacement (as in, it'll be plugged in 95% of the time) then its fine, if you want to take itout an about, i'd look at a different model.

[OMGWTF]

The batterly life will suck on it - it has a desktop processor. Youre talking about 4 or 5 times the power usage. If its for desktop replacement (as in, it'll be plugged in 95% of the time) then its fine, if you want to take itout an about, i'd look at a different model.

Cool and Quiet Turn it on and it'll drop the voltage a Ghz as required.

You could get the Turion, which is the same chip but designed to use even less power

[Juno]

Mark's drooling . I think he wants one.

[fuglyduckling]

Yeah but it still won't have anything like the battery life of a centrino. It will be crazy powerful, though, and if you are keeping it plugged in most of the time there's no problem!

[Sam2k]

I would go for Turion if I was going to buy an AMD laptop.