Cnet is reporting that eMachines is coming out with a new Mobile Athlon 64 powered laptop. It is going to be called the eMachines M6805 and it is going to be selling for $1,550. They are showing it on BestBuy's website but it is not on eMachines website yet.
It has an Mobile AMD Athlon 64 processor 3000+ CPU, a 15.4 Widescreen Display, WiFi-G, a 60 Gig hard drive and a ATI Mobility Radeon 9600 graphics chip with 64MB DDR. I can't wait to see what the benchmarks are on it and how it plays games and 3d apps.
That is pretty damn beefy and I am glad to see that eMachines is listening to the criticism that their notebooks did not have very powerful graphics chips. It will also be interesting to see how the beefier chips affect the battery life of the notebook. I will probably be getting one of these in a couple years when it is time to replace my current notebook. I hope they start to make a smaller thin notebook but they will probably keep making a sparse product line.
A few years ago I was a proud fun of Intel. But once I bought AMD powered desktop computer. It was like insight for me. For less money I bought the same and sometimes more power than I had. Now I a proud fun of AMD. I planing to buy a laptop with the Mobile Athlon 64 in a few month, searching for the best model fro different wendors.
Well once a 64 bit version of Windows comes out they will start to take off more but currently they only programs that take advantage of a 64-bit chip are games and graphics apps. That is fine with me.
I don't believe that even games use it yet.
I love the picture of the coffee machine computer. Do you know if it uses the heat from the gpu/cpu or a seperate heating element?
(3rd and final) I have two words for the 64 bit laptops... wafful iron.
PS: the main reason for the 64 bit architecture is for craploads of memory and 64 bit encription, it is not twice the speed, it is not double the bandwidth, but you can have a crapload more memory than with the 32 bit systems (4 gb max).
64mb graphics cards pry wont be able to run halflife 2/doom 3 (atleas at decent fps). So if you are looking to play either of those get something better. Atleast the mac 64 bit processors have alot better bus speed than the 32s, I'm not sure about AMD and Intel.
If a Radeon 9600 won't run Half Life 2 or Doom 3 then there is something seriously wrong with those games. I just hope that the games support the new wide screen aspect ratio.
I think the coffee mod uses a separate heating element.
I think Unreal Tourney 2k3 supports the Athlon 64.