Question about the compaq R3140US

I went to circuit city looking at laptops today and they said that the amd 64 bit processor is really good and that the intel 32 bit ones will be obsolete within a few months. I want a laptop that will be good for years and not become obsolete. I was looking at the sonys but I have decided not to go that way because of the glare on the screens even though they are beautiful. I will be using it for gaming (the sims mostly nothing too extreme), doing graphics and websites, and watching and burning dvds. Is the compaq R3140US the way to go? Right now I have a 4 yr old 800mhz ibm desktop that has 126mb ram and 27gb hard drive (which I only use 4gb of) so anything will really be better then what I have.

 

Whoever told you that 32bit processors will be obsolete in a few months really doesn't know what they are talking about. There are several reasons for this. There are not really any programs that take advantage of 64bit processors. What difference does the extra bits make for things such as office and IE anyway. Until there becomes a main stream usage of such processors either do to really cheap cost, or due to strictly applications needing them there will not be a big shift to these machines.
I'm not saying that they aren't nice, just that they will not come anywhere close to replacing all 32bit processors for at least a couple of years. The things you say you do will not really benefit too much by these processors. Games specificly are more gpu and memory dependent than cpu. Then webdesign doesn't require anything really. I've run pretty much anything needed for that on a PII 450 with 128 ram, it may run a little slow, but its not really a big problem.

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ok [ ] thank you for the help.