laptop for fpga design - acer ferrari?

I have been searching for a good laptop for fpga design. My research (??) indicates that AMD Athlon 64 chips perform faster than P4 chips on average. Of course it depends on which P4, and which AMD, but for the same cost it seems that AMD wins.

Can anyone tell me if this is correct?

Based on this assumption, I have only found 2 Brand Name AMD based laptops. The HP - Compaq design based - R3000Z series, and the Acer Ferrari. There are also some sites that do custom laptops, but I don't really like that idea at all. I am also looking for a light to medium weight laptop, nothing heavy like some of the big Toshibas.

Any advice or experience in this area would be welcome,

Thank you, nachum

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I have an ACER 1502, almost an earlier model of the Ferrari. It is very quick. The only thing that lets it down is the disk speed but this is a common issue for power users with laptops. There are faster laptop drives so it is worth finding out disk spec on any given laptop.

I have done benchmarking in the past on Intel v AMD and found one faster on some parts of the flow whilst the other does better on the other bits. Overall when I ran these tests the factors balanced out and ther was not much difference. These results will vary as design but it would be interesting to know how the latest batch offerings perform.

John Adair Enterpoint Ltd. - Home of Broaddown2. The Ultimate Spartan3 Development Board.

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I am using an external USB2.0 HD with 250GB. This is very fast and gives one all the storage required for development. Another point is that when I go home at the weekend I only take the HD with me and not the whole notebook.

Regards Thomas

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