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Today ASUS announced a new laptop, the ASUS A6Km, which uses Turion64 processors and Geforce Go 7300 Graphics Ive been waiting for a long time for a laptop like this, ...
  1. 10-25-2005 #1
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    New ASUS laptop: A6Km

    Today ASUS announced a new laptop, the ASUS A6Km, which uses Turion64 processors and Geforce Go 7300 Graphics

    Ive been waiting for a long time for a laptop like this, it seemed the only way i could get nVidia graphics and AMD64 chips was to shell out $4000 for a desktop replacement. Hopefully, this will be a little more affordable

    has anyone else heard about the GeForce 7300? I would assume its somewhere between the 6800 and 7800. im just looking for a laptop that cam run linux along with a few games, and this looks to be it.

    link: http://www.asus.com/news_show.aspx?id=1513
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    Turion and a Nvidia 7xxx series? Thats sweet.
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    i think its gona be the low-end nvida 7 series card, simular to the 6600 or the 6200
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    Huh? I'm writing this on my HP with AMD64 and NVidia graphics. Got a gig of memory too - for 800 quid (probly ~$1200). Runs Linux a treat (only the wireless LAN was a bugger to set up)
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    Nice, finally a laptop with Turion64 and nvidia.

    Roxoff, the reason why people are happy with this combo (Turion and nvidia) is that the Turion is the AMD equivalent of a Centrino and hence has most of the power of a full Athlon64 with the powersaving features of a Centrino. Also inclusion of nvidia card means that 3D in linux is a reality.
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    i looked, and hp didnt offer an amd/nvidia laptop, at least not here in the states (maybe its only available overseas)
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    Quote Originally Posted by zachtib
    i looked, and hp didnt offer an amd/nvidia laptop, at least not here in the states (maybe its only available overseas)
    Could be a UK or EU only model for sure. It's an HP Pavilion zv5000, goes like smoke. Quicker than my old P4 desktop, but is held back slightly by the 2.5inch IDE drive.
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    there's a topic in the Laptop forum about Turions. someone said that Turions aren't as good with linux as centrino. is this true?

    UPDATE: i know this is fairly quick but a quick google showed that it might be the radeon mobo causing this: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=suse...2595601673&w=2 in case anyone else is interested. i really hope it isn't the turion causing the problem because i really want to get 64-bit computing for my laptop.
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    I have always wondered, what Centrinos are 64-bot, if any, and what P4 processors too, please.
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    Quote Originally Posted by onlinebacon
    I have always wondered, what Centrinos are 64-bot, if any, and what P4 processors too, please.
    AFAIK, none of the centrino chips support 64bit, and a few of the P4s do, the ones with EM64T technology
    Apparently, Intel has a 64 bit proc, but they arent doing a good job getting the word out. AMD makes it pretty clear that their processors are 64bit
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