Comments on: Could HP's AMD laptop sway Dell?

If ever there were a case for Dell to do a Texas two-step to AMD, analyst says, the Compaq nx6125 might just be it.

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Longhorn...32bit and 64bit support

Exactly what the subject states. Longhorn will support both 32 and 64bit processors. In terms of upgrade potential, these turions are at the same point as my pentium M. Furthermore, if the person writing this article actualyl read more about longhorn, she'd know that people would want new laptops anyway at the time of its release. There are going to be a whole bunch of new extensions to the OS that will specifically be great for laptops. They want little screens on the outside that display things from the windows environments, like the 2nd screen on a cell phone. They also plan to have support for other operations, like playing dvd's without the full OS running. The point is that longhorn will bring a lot of new things to laptops and *all* users will want new machines to take advantage of these features. I

[flybass]

Longhorn...32bit and 64bit support

Exactly what the subject states. Longhorn will support both 32 and 64bit processors. In terms of upgrade potential, these turions are at the same point as my pentium M. Furthermore, if the person writing this article actualyl read more about longhorn, she'd know that people would want new laptops anyway at the time of its release. There are going to be a whole bunch of new extensions to the OS that will specifically be great for laptops. They want little screens on the outside that display things from the windows environments, like the 2nd screen on a cell phone. They also plan to have support for other operations, like playing dvd's without the full OS running. The point is that longhorn will bring a lot of new things to laptops and *all* users will want new machines to take advantage of these features. I