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Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 Laptop Reviewed
Steve from Hexus writes "Dual core finds its way inside a laptop (albeit a not-so-portable DTR) in the form of Rockdirect's Xtreme64. The DTR features an Athlon 64 X2 4800+, two 7200rpm hard drives and a GeForce Go 6800 Ultra GPU. HEXUS.net has a review of the laptop, one of the most powerful we've seen hit the market to date." From the article: "Rather than change a formula that works, Rockdirect has opted to stick with the Clevo D900-based chassis that its other performance-based laptops use. The obvious downsides are bulkiness and weight, with the laptop sitting almost 5cm high and weighing in at 5.7kg. It's a desktop replacement in the truest sense of the words, and with an 8kg travel weight (including charger and supplied carrying case) and relatively poor battery life, it's about as portable as a concrete slab."
In 10 years the Apple zealots will again have rewritten the history and given Apple the spot for first dual core/SMP laptop, just as they always does.
Could you point out the printer friendly link on the page on your site you linked to? Some of us would rather just load a long document to read than read one that's been artificially split up just to increase ad revenue.
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After all, I am strangely colored.
At my workplace we can salary sacrifice laptops but not desktops. This means you pay for the system out of your pre-tax income, which can make a good laptop cheaper than an equivalent desktop system.
You're spending your own hard-earned money so that the owners of your company will become wealthier?
Please tell me that you have a substantial shareholder position in this enterprise.
If not, then repeat the following 500 times a day: "I am not a slave, I am not a slave, I am not a slave."
No, *you* are a fool - or at least ignorant of the scheme the OP is talking about.
At the risk of sounding like [God forbid] a Marxist, if you can't see what the business owners and their paid lackeys in the legislatures have done here, then you are a fool.
They [the business owners and the politicians] have written the tax laws so that they can fool you into believing that the laptop you purchased is for your own benefit.
It is NOT for your benefit. It is for the benefit of the business owners, so that instead of demanding from you a 5 X 8 = 40 hour work week, they can now [at least theoretically] hold you accountable for a 7 X 24 = 168 hour work week.
Would you feel the same way if the tax credit were for a pager that could be used to wake you up in the middle of the night, or, better yet, a second phone line to your home, replete with a bright red telephone, labelled "HOTLINE", strategically located on the nightstand immediately opposite the pillow on your bed?
You know, the older I get, the more I'm coming to the conclusion that, if given the opportunity, the vast, overwhelming majority of humans will gladly, of their own free will, chose slavery over freedom.
PS: And I am getting damned tired of having these sorts of comments modded down as flamebait. You people need to wake up and smell the coffee.
PPS: Now that I've glanced back over your comment [and no, I wouldn't dream of wasting the time required to read it in its entirety], it's pretty clear that you hail from the general vicinity of Great Britain, which means that you're almost certainly part of the problem, and attempting any sort of civil discourse with you is an utter and complete waste of my time.