64 Bit Athlon Notebooks Hit the Market

Omega1045 writes "Our friends at News.com.com.com are reporting that one of the first notebooks powered by the 64 bit Athlon will be made by (drumroll, please) eMachines. Slashdot has mentioned eMachines venture into 64 bit Athlon technology before. You also might note from this past press release that eMachines claims to be the 3rd biggest PC maker in the US. Hopefully this will have the dual effect of pushing the new chip into the market, and keeping it afforable of laptop junkies like me."

Comments

Re:I have one...

[xankar]

I dunno about you, but I'd prefer mine to not be broken.

Re:I think eMachines gets a bad rap

[cobe98]

Naah he probably blew it up will looking at http://www.goatse.cx and jacking off

Re:I think eMachines gets a bad rap

[ShadowDrake]

What about Packard Bell, from their first trip around before they had to flee the US market with their tail pulled?

I had a P100 tower. It had a 2.1G hard disc. Sorta. It had a 1.2G unit chained to an 850M unit with some firmware taping it together. All I knew is that not only was the whole unit bad when I replaced it, and the units seperately were bad.

I tried a little video benchmark.

No L2 cache.

You had to invert the box to remove the sides and access cards.

The board weirded out-- BIOS was always bad but it ran fine. Fortunately, by that time, a K6/225 and proper mobo were entering the upgrade-spares queue.