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[neye_eve]

Posting from my new 64bit laptop

--- fyi, this is from a post I just made at a mac forum, my home on the web, so to speak, so it will have some info that you already know ---

Well, I took the plunge. No 64 bit OS installed yet, but the 32-bit mode is sweet, and I can play unreal tournament 2004 with most of the pretty stuff on in 1280 x 800 resolution with absolutely no stuttering (me and 5 bots)!!!

There are a couple things I don't like about the laptop - the positition of the alt and control keys is mind-bogglingly stupid. Also, the power connector takes a bit of getting used to. But all in all, I really like it. I'm still at work, so I haven't been able to test the wireless aspect yet. Hopefully it's at least as good as the pcmcia card I have in my other laptop (duron 1Ghz in that one, this is a 1.6 Ghz Athlon 64 3000+).

One of the cool things this laptop has is 6 different input slots for digital media (e.g. compact flash, secure digital, etc). Other specs... 1 firewire, 4 usb, 15" widescreen tft, 512 RAM, 60GB HD, DVD/CD-RW combo. Also nice is that the heat isn't nearly as bad as in my Duron laptop, which could mean that either this is good, the Duron was bad, or somewhere in between those two. Not sure on battery life yet, will test next week when I'm back from vacation.

Whoops! forgot to mention the price - this was $1,599. Has a $100 rebate, but I don't really trust them, so I am just considering it to be a $1,600 laptop unless some miracle occurs and I actually get the check in the mail

So.... that's about it,
neye