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Jules Gilbert wrote:

> A friend of mine was recently contacted by DELL.
>
> They offered him a 45-day free trial of a dynamite laptop, based on 
> 1920 pixels on a side, and AMD 64-bit internals, running at 2.2Ghz.  A 
> battery consisting of 12 cells, instead of the usual 8, which they 
> claim will support four hours of use.
> Probably, it's a decent system.

Is Dell finally going to offer an AMD chip in a system?  This would be a 
first for them you know.  Every other Dell on the market has Intel chips.

> For free.  For 45 days.

Sounds like a beta program to me.  I woudln't read too much into it.