T42 or Acer ferrari 3200 ?

[samba]

Has any one done comparision of Acer Ferrari 3200 with T42. With T42 , 15inch weight nearing 6 lb I think we could consider other systems as alternatives.

I am interested in some comparison in terms of performance , battery consumption, heat generated etc..

Since above Acer Model has 64 bit AMD cpu , is it a better fit for business laptop? For software development tasks along with home web browsing etc .

Please share your opinion. I am deciding between these models and need some advise.

Thanks

[Nabeel]

IMO 64bit is unneccessary, since most applications run on 32bit, and 64bit requires specialized drivers and whatnot. And at this point in time, 64bit is overkill.

AMDs historically run a little hotter than Intel chips, I'm not sure how their mobile abilities and statistics compare to the Centrino, if you search around I'm sure you can find more information..

[cynic]

AMD doesn't have anything to compete with Pentium M on a peformance+mobility basis. The 64mobile processors are more on par with P-4M chips, not Pentium M chips. Right now, Pentium M chips are king-of-the-hill in the performance with mobility market (long lasting and great performers.)

I write this as a huge fan of AMD. (At work, we have 2 AMD workstations we built from 2.0GHz dual 246 Opterons and one 2.2GHz dual 248 Opteron and they are stellar with a great price to performance ratio. The Xeon (3.2Ghz 2MB L2), that we also built, doesn't match up at all and cost way more per chip)

[akerman]

It all depends on how the low power A64 runs. If it's anything like the XP-M, the F3200 is going to be every bit as noisy, hot and power hungry as the F3000!