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Rick Rizner, John Goddard
This home portable takes off like a rocket thanks to some powerful fuel: AMD's new 1.8-GHz Mobile Athlon 64 3000+, the first 64-bit processor for notebooks. With 512MB of RAM, our M6807 posted a PC WorldBench 4 score of 128, a scant 3 points faster than the average score of 125 earned by 1.6-GHz Pentium M-equipped notebooks we've tested. Battery life was less impressive. The M6807 lasted just 2 hours and 49 minutes, compared with the 4 to 6 hours that we've seen from other, similarly equipped notebooks.
The M6807 is a tad heavy at 7.9 pounds for the notebook alone,...