Re: AMD vs. Intel

Ditto what Paul and John said.

I was pleasantly surprised to see our kid's school (K-8) just picked up a
new laptop, used mostly for media type work, that was 64-bit AMD and "ready
for Windows Vista".  Don't recall the exact AMD processor model, but with
2GB of ram, this is one fast little box.  Have no idea what they paid for it
either but, needless to say, this isn't your TigerDirect special of the
week.

Frankly, I'm on the fence a bit about Vista as I've heard through various
newsgroups that Vista will be far from "ready for prime time" when it hits
the corporate street later this year.  (Isn't it funny that the corporations
get the first crack at Vista?  Consumers have to wait until next year.  I
can just see all the IT managers lining up to install Vista shortly after
release.)  I want to think that the PC vendors were jumping all over
Microsoft not to release Vista in time for Christmas to avert a support
crisis.  FWIW, this is just hearsay on hearsay.

John: 4200RPM?  I never knew these existed.  Is this pre-Pentium, maybe even
pre-486 technology?  Or was it a tradeoff for energy savings on the laptop?

- Dan