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64-bit Laptops Reviewed

Posted by timothy on from the little-fiddly-parts dept.

prostoalex writes "ExtremeTech reviews current mega-notebooks, which are powerful enough to become a desktop replacement. Among the laptops reviewed there's one with 64-bit AMD Mobile Athlon 64 3200+ (2.0GHz clock rate) - the Voodoo Envy m:855."

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  1. Re:Somewhere in Cupertino by Bert64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    First 64bit laptop? What about the "Tadpole Alphabook" - i believe that was the first 64bit laptop, but i could be wrong... i believe it came out in the first half of the 90`s and use a 166 or 233mhz 64bit Alpha EV4 processor.
    Also tadpole produced HP PA-RISC laptops (precisionbook) and ultrasparc laptops, altho they came much later, they still predate the G5 by a few years.
    On a side note, if anyone has a working alphabook for sale.. get in touch with me!

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  2. I call bullshit on all these 'firsts'. by Cecil · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've been drooling over Hypersonic's Laptops for quite a long time now, and I find it very hard to believe that either of these companies have the first Athlon 64 laptop (which Hypersonic has had basically since the Athlon Mobile 64 was announced) or the first RAID array in a laptop, which Hypersonic has had for a long time in their Aviator GX8 series.

    Way too many "journalists" see something like that and go "whoa, that must be the first time that's ever been done." without ever looking into it.

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