Best place to get a AMD 64bit notebook?

Hydraulix · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 447

Sorry if this is in the wrong forum but I'm going to be buying a new laptop in a couple of months. And I wanted to know what's a good site with cheap shipping that I can order from. The situation is I'm stationed in Fairbanks, Alaska and well the computers up here suck. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Also since it's going to be a Gentoo linux box only what kinda hardware works great with Gentoo 64?

Thanks again.
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PredatorX · n00b Joined: 22 May 2004 Posts: 55

I bought n Asus L5900 DF .
Seems to work quite alright, emerging kde now

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There is also the Acer Lmi 1511 if I remember correctly.
That even has a GF Go 5700, but max screen res is only 1024x768 .

Ati will not have 64-bit support till the en of the year, I read somewhere, so Go Nvidia!

here is a good site with a list:

http://www.amdboard.com/athlon_64_notebook.html

Good luck!
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Phorem · Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2004 6:25 pm Post subject:

Try Future Shop. I know it's CDN but you will get good exchange and it will probably ship out of Vancouver BC for free so it will be there quick (besides the border mess).

http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/subclass.asp?logon=&langid=EN&dept=1&WLBS=fsweb12&catid=11520
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tridy · n00b Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 41 Location: Australia

I have a asus L5000D with gentoo installed, haven't had any major problems, works well. I wouldn't say it was a seamless install, have a look at the install notes I posted for more details;

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=196465

Sivar · Apprentice Joined: 25 May 2002 Posts: 266 Location: USA

I purchased mine in late 2003 from hypersonic-pc.com
Works like a charm, and I recently had it encoding video, continuously, for a week.

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Hydraulix · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 447

Nice one. Thanks for the help.

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Hydraulix · Guru Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 447

I'm considering this Clickhere

I'm not sure how HP is with Linux. I know some notebooks have that really small screen during boot up that's annoying as all hell. So I'm not sure if this HP does that. Can anyone give me some advice on HP notebooks?

Thanks again for the help.

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robg · Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 12:44 am Post subject:

I bought a compaq notebook a couple of months ago. HP now owns the compaq systems.
I have tried several times to request technical support from their wesite with no responses yet except the ever useful automated "we got your request" message.

So I wouldn't hope for anything useful from them. If it works out of the box, great.

You can check http://www.linux-laptop.net/ for the model you are interested in to see if anyone has reported success with it, and most important what problems they had.