Len Zaifman wrote:
would like to replace a 4 year old Sony VAIO with a an AMD64 laptop. What experience is there ? What works? <snip>
I am very happy with with my e-machines with a 3200+/80gb drive. Just dropped a gig board in it to accomidate my VMWare machines (only way I will run Windoze). Especially like the wide screen 1280x800, lets me look at configs side by side much better. My only problem has been the Broadcom wireless. I ended up putting a 32-bit partition that I got ndiswrapper running on. So far, that is the only program I could not get running in 64-bit. BTW, I expected it to run hot but was nicely surprised at the great cooling design that keeps it cooler than my old Athlon4 Sony. Curt Purdy CISSP, GSEC, MCSE+I, CNE, CCDA Information Security Engineer DP Solutions ---------------------------------------- If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked. -- former White House cybersecurity czar Richard Clarke