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Message: <blockquote data-quote="drothgery" data-source="post: 2992134" data-attributes="member: 360">Why buy a Core Duo notebook? Well, because you can get them now, from Dell (this may matter if you're getting things for work or through a university discount program) or Apple (many people swear by OSX, or just like Apple's designs), they offer the best performance in most 32-bit apps, and it's unlikely that much desktop software is going to be 64-bit only (or even 64 bit at all) in the next 3 years or so.AMD's largely a non-factor in notebooks; they're pretty common in low-end retail channel PCs, but they're non-existent in business-targetted machines and scarce in higher-end systems. Pentium M and Core Duo, despite not being 64-bit, have kept up with Athlon 64 far better than Pentium 4 and Pentium D did.</blockquote>