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Message: <blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 2992118" data-attributes="member: 12966">Compaq might be my next oneI'm in the market for a new laptop myself.  Since the Intel Core chips are not 64-bit, I'm planning to stay away from them (why buy old technology?).  And the weekly newspapers here in Tampa are filled with Turion single- and dual-core laptops...  (My current laptop is an Athlon64 @ 2GHz and I love it!)I just saw an ad for a Compaq with an AMD Turion 64-bit dual-core chip with 512MB RAM (after rebates) for $699.  I would bump the RAM up to 1GB, probably 2GB since this will be for business purposes.  And yes, that includes a DVD burner (double layer), Wireless (a/b/g), a few media reader slots (I think CF, SM, SD, MS, and XD, if I remember correctly).I think it came with Windows Media Center, but I don't know -- I plan to wipe Windows off the machine before I have to respond to the EULA agreement and get my money back on it! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  (Check <a href="http://linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7040" target="_blank">here</a> or <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/191319/" target="_blank">here</a> for details.)This box is in today's St. Petersburg Times in the <a href="http://www.officedepot.com/" target="_blank">OfficeDepot</a> ad.  I'm sure the warranty is fairly short; I purchase my electronics with either American Express or my premier VISA, since they both double the warranty period (they'll double up to a year's worth of the original warranty, and there's no registration or paperwork required).I generally buy computers retail because the rebates are so good.  Since my computer purchases are for business, there are advantages to having one number on a receipt, yet getting cash back in the form of rebates. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Whatever you buy, if you want graphics performance you're better off with nVidia, but they're becoming harder to find among the major brands.  Especially with 256MB of non-shared video RAM.</blockquote>

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