what is the point of a athlon 64 notebook with onboard vid?

[RaNDoMMAI]

I saw this lappy at sams club for 1000 bucks

http://www.sharpsystems.com/pr...ts/datasheets/AL27.pdf

looks pretty good to me, but the battery life is kind of low.

I was really wondering what is the point of a A64 system in a notebook if you cant play any games since the onboard video sucks.

Is it going to run vid programs better then a pentium M notebook? multitask better?

what do you guys think of the Sharp notebook. i didnt even know sharp made computer stuff until today.

~RaNDoM

 

[mxzrider]

i looked at this computer a while back but i want a real gpu. but i should preform about the same or a little better than the pm with ig. but the batt life will never be close.
also i thought about the reason for pairing a a64 to a ig. and it is completely gay. i woundered the same about hpcompc with the 2 year old gpu. dumb as hell.

 

[uOpt]

It makes a fine webserver with PHP and python

 

[RaNDoMMAI]

heh

i didnt really see the point of a A64 with onboard graphic either, just eats battery life.

thx for the replies
~RaNDoM

 

[cheesehead]

Please do not call things "gay". If you're insecure about your own sexuality, that is a subject for Off Topic.
Also, there is a point of the A64 in an integrated-graphics motherboard. If you want to encode Mp3s fast and do a little photoshopping, integrated graphics are fine; these are CPU-intensive tasks. Unless you're gaming, you do'nt need anything above a Unichrome anyways.

 

[jvarszegi]

I agree with Cheesehead completely about the "gay" remark. I also agree completely with him about the use for such a machine. There are plenty of uses for a fast processor in a machine that don't have anything to do with gaming. Also, your best video cards for gaming aren't the best for design work anyway; that's why high-end multimedia designers who want the best hardware are still stuck on the desktop to this day, so they can buy workstation-class graphics cards with 512 megs of memory and up.

I agree totally that an A64 laptop without dedicated graphics isn't for everybody. But hey, A64 laptops aren't for everybody to start with. They seem to appeal to a very small segment of the population.

 

[RaNDoMMAI]

i just ignored the "gay" remark.

but anyway
Well for me being a student in college. i value battery life more then encoding mp3s and photoshopping more. I have my main rig for that. i was really hoping this lappy would have a long battery life since it looks real cool and is not heavy to me. but 2 hours is just not enough.

any recommendations are a good lappy around 1000?

~RaNDoM

 

[Mik3y]

just to let you know, the point of the athlon 64 is not for gaming. just because it is better then intel at gaming doesnt make it a "gaming only" cpu. it's faster in general then the comparitive P4 and multi-task's at 100%. the P4 w/ HT multi-tasks at 110%.

 

[konakona]

you do'nt need anything above a Unichrome anyways.

just a nitpick here : unichromes are OK for watching video, but cant touch ATi radeon family video cards. i am dying to find out what p650 will be like

 

[vegetation]

Originally posted by: RaNDoMMAI
heh

i didnt really see the point of a A64 with onboard graphic either, just eats battery life.

thx for the replies
~RaNDoM

Actually, the true mobile A64 would consume about the same amount of overall power as the Celeron-M, since the A64 has lower leakage and the Celeron cannot throttle down in speed. The Pentium-M would still be lower on the power consumption scale but good luck finding a new 15" model for under $1k.

 

[Wuzup101]

If you already have a main rig you might consider a 12" iBook. Find a local apple store and take a look at them.... You can pick up a 12" 1.2ghz G4 for around $700 if you count rebates and such and sell things that come with rebates (IE: printers).