I recently upgraded my athlon64 3700+ (socket 939) to a althlon64 x2 4200+ for 60 bucks and yeah it was a big boost, apparent in every application. Also the x2's are very overclock friendly, I'm able to push mine to 2.5+ ghz from the stock 2.2
I'm not upgrading my mobo until the next gen chip situation gets sorted out.
I paid $350 for a laptop PC from Fry's on one of their holiday specials, it has a 15.4 inch screen, 1280 x 800 resolution, AMD Sempron 3200+ processor, 40 gig SATA hard drive (upgraded myself to a 120 gig drive for 50 bucks off ebay), 512 megs ram (upgraded myself to 2 gigs ram for like $60), ATI Radeon x1100 graphics so it can play some basic games. Battery on it lasts 3ish hours but I rarely use it unconnected to AC power. I really don't see the point of paying the same or more for the ASUS eeeepc.
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I recently upgraded my athlon64 3700+ (socket 939) to a althlon64 x2 4200+ for 60 bucks and yeah it was a big boost, apparent in every application. Also the x2's are very overclock friendly, I'm able to push mine to 2.5+ ghz from the stock 2.2 I'm not upgrading my mobo until the next gen chip situation gets sorted out.
I paid $350 for a laptop PC from Fry's on one of their holiday specials, it has a 15.4 inch screen, 1280 x 800 resolution, AMD Sempron 3200+ processor, 40 gig SATA hard drive (upgraded myself to a 120 gig drive for 50 bucks off ebay), 512 megs ram (upgraded myself to 2 gigs ram for like $60), ATI Radeon x1100 graphics so it can play some basic games. Battery on it lasts 3ish hours but I rarely use it unconnected to AC power. I really don't see the point of paying the same or more for the ASUS eeeepc.