Advice on AMD64 laptop

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Hi lads & ladies,

I need to buy a desktop replacement laptop with the following specs:
- AMD64 3000+
- 60GB HD @ 7200rpm
- don't mind about soundcard and graphics card
- don't mind about weight
- 1GB 400Mhz DDR RAM (not sure if this is compatible with AMD64 MB but
don't mind 333Mhz either)
- 15.4" WSXGA screen (1680x1050)
- a CD burner/DVD reader is enough

I know there's the Acer Ferrari but I've heard it heats up a bit on
the palm rest and don't like it's 5400rpm HD; also Compaq ships the
Presario R3000Z but it has a 5400rpm HD as well.

Can you please help me finding the laptop I'm looking for?

Thanks,
Lorenzo

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lbolognini@gmail.com (Lorenzo Bolognini) wrote:
> I need to buy a desktop replacement laptop with the following specs:
> - AMD64 3000+

Why do you want such a low-grade CPU? Are you running 64-bit software?


> - 1GB 400Mhz DDR RAM (not sure if this is compatible with AMD64 MB but
> don't mind 333Mhz either)

Crucial.com sells RAM cheaper than does any laptop retailer. If you
want a fast memory controller, you might want to look at the Dell
Precision M60:
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/pr [...] /precn_m60

Unfortunately, the M60 does not ship with CPUs as slow as AMD64.
Perhaps the machine could be slowed down to AMD64 speed by
continuously running virus-checking software.

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Chris Allen wrote:
>>I need to buy a desktop replacement laptop with the following specs:
>>- AMD64 3000+
> Why do you want such a low-grade CPU? Are you running 64-bit software?

I'd like to install a GNU/Linux 64bit distro such as
Fedora/SUSE/Gentoo/Slack and play around with Oracle on those

> Crucial.com sells RAM cheaper than does any laptop retailer. If you
> want a fast memory controller, you might want to look at the Dell

No way cheaper of the RAM that you buy with the PC (but I do check every
time Crucial RAM upgrades everytime I see a laptop configuration that
might suite me.

> Precision M60:
> http://www1.us.dell.com/content/pr [...] /precn_m60

I don't want a Centrino. It's too expensive for what you get. I need a
desktop replacement that still stays cool and the least noisy possible.
I admit that Centrino runs as fast as any other modern CPU on desktop
apps but is not by any mean comparable with AMD64 or P4. I've been
interested in the DELL 9100 for a while but I think it might be too
noisy for my tastes. My ideal notebook would be a DELL 9100 with AMD64.

Lorenzo

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Chris Allen wrote:

> lbolognini@gmail.com (Lorenzo Bolognini) wrote:
>> I need to buy a desktop replacement laptop with the following specs:
>> - AMD64 3000+
>
> Why do you want such a low-grade CPU? Are you running 64-bit software?
>
>
>> - 1GB 400Mhz DDR RAM (not sure if this is compatible with AMD64 MB but
>> don't mind 333Mhz either)
>
> Crucial.com sells RAM cheaper than does any laptop retailer. If you
> want a fast memory controller, you might want to look at the Dell
> Precision M60:
> http://www1.us.dell.com/content/pr [...] /precn_m60
>
> Unfortunately, the M60 does not ship with CPUs as slow as AMD64.
> Perhaps the machine could be slowed down to AMD64 speed by
> continuously running virus-checking software.

This scores about a 2.5 on the troll-o-meter. What are you using that is
faster than an AMD64? You own a mainframe or something?

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"Chris Allen" <callen@efn.org> wrote in message
news:698c89aa.0411270204.57528aae@posting.google.com...
| lbolognini@gmail.com (Lorenzo Bolognini) wrote:
| > I need to buy a desktop replacement laptop with the following specs:
| > - AMD64 3000+
|
| Why do you want such a low-grade CPU? Are you running 64-bit software?
|

Whhops. Troll alert. Chris is either a blind Intel Fan boy, incompetent, or
just like to troll. I am sure OP knows, but theA64 is the most powerful
mainstream CPU currently available. Intel makes nothing to touch it.

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Hierophant wrote:

>
> "J. Clarke" <jclarke@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
> news:coa8a902v43@news3.newsguy.com...
> | Chris Allen wrote:
> |
> | > lbolognini@gmail.com (Lorenzo Bolognini) wrote:
> | >> I need to buy a desktop replacement laptop with the following specs:
> | >> - AMD64 3000+
> | >
> | > Why do you want such a low-grade CPU? Are you running 64-bit software?
> | >
> | >
> | >> - 1GB 400Mhz DDR RAM (not sure if this is compatible with AMD64 MB
> | >> but don't mind 333Mhz either)
> | >
> | > Crucial.com sells RAM cheaper than does any laptop retailer. If you
> | > want a fast memory controller, you might want to look at the Dell
> | > Precision M60:
> | > http://www1.us.dell.com/content/pr [...] /precn_m60
> | >
> | > Unfortunately, the M60 does not ship with CPUs as slow as AMD64.
> | > Perhaps the machine could be slowed down to AMD64 speed by
> | > continuously running virus-checking software.
> |
> | This scores about a 2.5 on the troll-o-meter. What are you using that
> | is
> | faster than an AMD64? You own a mainframe or something?
> |
>
> Even then, unless it is Opteron powered, it is still pwned by AMD!

I see. So what AMD based machine beats a z990?

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Chris Allen wrote:

> "J. Clarke" <jclarke@nospam.invalid> wrote:
>> what AMD based machine beats a z990?
>
> XT3.
> http://www.cray.com/products/xt3/specifications.html

Fine, what Opteron machine beats Blue Gene/L, Columbia, Earth-Simulator,
MareNostrum, Thunder, ASCI 1, System X, the Blue Gene L prototype,
NAVOCEANO's eServer 655, Tungsten, ECMWF's eServer 690s, John Von Neumann,
the Riken Super Combined Cluster, the BlueGene/L DD2 Prototype, and Mpp2?

The first Opteron machine in the top 500 supercomputer list is number 17.
The highest place Cray is an X1 at number 29. The XT3 doesn't seem to
exist as an operational machine.

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J. Clarke wrote:
> Chris Allen wrote:
> > J. Clarke wrote:
> >> what AMD based machine beats a z990?
> > XT3.
> > http://www.cray.com/products/xt3/specifications.html
> Fine, what Opteron machine beats Blue Gene/L, Columbia, Earth-Simulator,
> MareNostrum, Thunder, ASCI 1, System X, the Blue Gene L prototype,
> NAVOCEANO's eServer 655, Tungsten, ECMWF's eServer 690s, John Von Neumann,
> the Riken Super Combined Cluster, the BlueGene/L DD2 Prototype, and Mpp2?
>
> The first Opteron machine in the top 500 supercomputer list is number 17.
> The highest place Cray is an X1 at number 29. The XT3 doesn't seem to
> exist as an operational machine.

Cray shipped a 10 teraflop portion of an XT3 supercomputer to Sandia
on Oct. 25, 2004, as part of the Red Storm contract. That part will be
operational in January 2005. Near the middle of 2005, Red Storm will
have all of its cabinets in place and be capable of about 40 teraflops,
which would put it at number three on the above supercomputer list.
Near the end of 2005, when Red Storm is finished and has had all of its
10,368 single-core Opterons replaced with dual-core Opterons, it will
be capable of about 100 teraflops, besting every single computer on
the above list.
http://beta.top500.org/upcoming/redstorm/

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Hi guys,

tnx very much for the replies.

Lorenzo
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