64-bit in near future.. - Page 9

I don't mind a normal viewing angle if it is reasonable. I have seen a difference in screen quality amongst SXGA+ screens from different well known brands (Toshiba, Compaq, Dell, HP etc). I have seen some poor SXGA+ screens. The best screen i have seen is the SXGA+ Crystal View from Fujitsu. However this screen drains a lot from the battery and Fujitsu don't have an A64 notebook. There does not seem to be an A64 with a UXGA screen. Sooooo, I would like a compromise - an A64 with a good, crisp, bright, high(er) contrast screen with a decent viewing angle thus I get a workable screen for Photoshop and TRUE portability.

The build quality is somewhat less then the dells I handle at work (some model of latitude). Though it's nothing that I'd write home about, it definately feels like it'll hold up to my useage of it. I really can't say why just yet, it's something in the "feel" of the plastics used in the laptop cases that makes me feel this way. The Mitac does have a lot less give when twisted than the dell, which is good by my standards.

It is indeed deathly quiet, I can't get a reading on the internal fan with my dB meter due to minor ambient noise. I need to check it when I'm doing something more stressful on the cpu to get it to run at full speed (if it does change speeds?). The cdrom it comes with does have some spin up noise with it that is a bit louder than normal, but that is more due to me adjusting to the cpu fans low level of sound.

In the basic games I own (ghost recon primarly) at 1024x768 it's rivaling the desktop, and most of the time pulls a couple extra fps out. I image if I cranked everything I could get the laptop to choke where my desktop would not. Sometime next week I'll overclock the latop and see what I can get (desktop is to remain stock since it's now my htpc).

I haven't tried yanking the plug while doing anything intensive yet, I'll try it out sometime to see what happens.

I'm no photo expert so I can't really say much about the color accuracy, it looks more true to my crt monitor than the dells at work do, but that's assuming my crt monitor is properly calibrated (I haven't bothered calibrated my monitor myself).

The veiwing angle is rather narrow on this screen, I would estimate it to be some 15 degrees off center.

photogeek -> you might be better off doing what I am doing and that's using an external monitor at home/work. Do your minor editing on the road and then do the big stuff at home.

Thanks Tekara: So far you seem happy with your purchase! I may order one and check it out for 30 days (if allowed!) I will connect the notebook to my calibrated Lacie CRT monitor at home/studio. However when on location it would be nice to use the notebook screen to view just shot images and check for lighting/color and show images to clients.

Thanks again for the reviews.

Photogeek: you in the same boat as me? Check out the fujitsu screen on the N5010. It is fab! but the notebook is heavy, bad battery life and not AMD64. I have found the desktop AMD64 to be faster than a P4 on raw file conversions

I'm also looking for a system for photo editing and web site development. There's too many choices, and I'm wayyyy to indecisive. 64 bit has got to be the way to go.

Grr I can't wait for mine.. I'm here on my desktop downloading and backing up all my programs..

I might get an external DVD buner, since I did not order one. But its around $220 dollars from Newegg. I could talk my parents into buying it if I say.. oh you can back up home videos.. pictures.. blah blah blah..

Take heart David, if you wait a couple-three months, at least you will be able to cross off everything you've looked up till now. That should cut the list down a bit.

I've been sick all today. I got some sort of fever, where whenever I eat or drink, I vomit. It's crazy, I'm finally recovering, I've been up since 1 AM vomiting about every hour.

Intel Vs AMD64

I like both Intel and AMD. The Intel HT ownes I like having 1 cpu act like 2

cpus. I am not sure how AMD 64bit has anyone maxed out there AMD 64 on a

WinXP 64 OS? I assume it will come up as 1 Cpu. When Intel comes out with

there 64 bit cpu is it going to have HT also? Therefore that would be like Dual

64 bit? Just wondering whats Better Intel EE with HT or AMD 64? Even thought

its not true Dual cpu's with HT it sure does a good job. I easy do process on my

laptop that can make out 1 cpu to the 100% All in all

Dual 32bit vs 1 64 bit?


Thanks
P.S. I can wait for some day people to say "Whats a Deaktop?, I only know of laptops in the world today."
-Matt

HT is fast, the amd chip just barely out preforms it.

what about the prescotts> how fast are those in realtions to the 64 bit

HyperTransport is AMD's alternative to the PCI-bus. It has little to do with Hyper-Threading. AMD has no news annoucements regarding a multi-threading optimized processor.

I have just downloaded Windows 64bit, so when I get it I'll install it.. but I want to wait until there are more drivers for it.

Dual 32bit vs 1 64bit, huh? Dual 32bit is still 32bit, and really makes no difference. No everyday programs support Dual CPU's unless your running a server farm, or playing Quake 3 (which actually supports Dual CPUs)

Nah, I don't have it yet, I said I have windows 64bit :/ I am also downloading Mandrake 9.2, but I am a total linux noob, and I have NO idea what it is or how to work it..

PCI Express is a chip to chip buss and main board buss architecture. It will be replacing both the FSB, AGP and PCI busses, rolling them all into one. Hyper-Transport, AMDs alternative to PCI Express, does that as well but is also used internally within the CPU. In many ways, its actually better than PCI Express, at least compared to the initial releases for Express. If AMD had more clout or Intel less, Hyper-Transport would likely be what the industry would be using rather than Express, but that's only happening in a different parallel universe, the one where I am extremely lucky, good looking and wealthy.

However, as DW noted, in this parallel universe or any other, Hyper-Transport has nothing to do with Hyper-Threading. Hyper-Threading creates a virtual processor to utilize the unused and underused cycles in the CPU while Hyper-Transport is a buss architecture.

It would be interesting to see what kind of performance an AMD 64 processor could get with some kind of hyper-threading but I don't know if they are compatible with the process. Anybody out there know much about that? With some kind of H-Threading, the only thing slowing them down would be the vast number buttocks ensconced on their boots.