Posts by a13antichrist

No but at least you get a 5400rpm hard drive. And not everyone wants XP on their machines.. $38 for two-day Fed-Ex. I would have got one myself if batery wasn't my main priority...

Uniwill N258KA: Athlon64 3000+ Radeon M11 128Mb 512Mb 40Gb 5400rpm $1315 from MWave. Of course the downside with this one is that battery life is 1h30-2hrs absolute max - official specs say 1hr30. If that doens't bother you...

What do you define as a "great mobile processor"? You can get 3hrs out of a 62W Mobile Athlon64. We're talking about a 35W chip - that's half the power drain and hence you'd only need a battery with half the capacity to give...

Quote: Originally Posted by been606 you show me an AMD64 lappy that gets the battery life a centrino gets, and weighs as little, and I will sign the check the right now That's what I'm saying, throw an LV...

There are machines that get 3hrs from a 62W Mobile Athlon64. Sure the battery capacity would be less in the CL56 but then it's only using half the power so 4hrs should be more than attainable.

Seems to me that this CL56 laptop with a LV mobile Athlon64 would be pretty much the perfect laptop.. no?