I am looking for a supplier of laptops with 64 AMD processors, preferrably Opteron.

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Rick Stevens wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 14:16 -0500, Mark Haney wrote:
>   
>> linux wrote:
>>     
>>> I am looking for a supplier of laptops with 64 AMD processors, 
>>> preferrably Opteron, on which to install FC6-x64..  Any suggestions?  
>>> recent NVIDIA graphics would be a definite bonus.
>>>
>>> Ed
>>>
>>>       
>> Wow, I want a laptop with 64 AMD processors, too!  :)
>>
>> I assume you mean 64-bit procesors?  This is pretty open ended, but I'm 
>> partial to the Compaq laptops.  The one I have is not Nvidia, it's ATI. 
>>   I've found nvidia drivers and linux to be a PITA to get configured, so 
>> I've avoided them for quite a while now.  But then, I don't really need 
>> 3D accel for what I do anyway.
>>     
>
> I have an HP Pavillion ZV6000.  Comes with a Athlon 64 and ATI graphics,
> wired gigabit ethernet and a Broadcom 802.11g wireless:
>
> [root at golem2 xxx]# cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor       : 0
> vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
> cpu family      : 15
> model           : 47
> model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3200+
> stepping        : 2
> cpu MHz         : 1000.000
> cache size      : 512 KB
> fpu             : yes
> fpu_exception   : yes
> cpuid level     : 1
> wp              : yes
> flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt
> lm 3dnowext 3dnow up pni lahf_lm
> bogomips        : 1995.51
> TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
> clflush size    : 64
> cache_alignment : 64
> address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
> power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc
>
> [root at golem2 xxx]# lspci
> <snip>
> 01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon
> XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
> <snip>
> 03:06.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
> RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
> <snip>
> 03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
> 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>
> 60GB hard drive (replaced with a 120GB for me!)  Pretty cheap.  Note:
> I use ndiswrapper for the Broadcom wireless.  The bcm43xx driver truly
> sucks rocks for me.  Never have gotten it to stabilize.  ndiswrapper and
> a 64-bit XP driver works a treat.
>
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>   
The Pavillion line is looking pretty good.... Do you know the 
differences in the Athlon 64 X2 and Turion 64 X2?  I am leaning heavily 
towards the HP Pavillion dv9000z series which offers the Turion 64 X2 
Dual-Core TL-60 with a very decent NVIDIA graphics set.

Ed