The Compaq looks very good, I think Athlon 64 is the way to go with stuff like Poser (integrated memory controller and very powerful floating point processor). The only thing I would warn you about with it is the hard drive is probably going to be it's biggest bottleneck - looks like it's only 4200 RPM. Most laptop HDD are S L O W .... they are built for low power consumption and heat, not performance. You'll notice this when reading/writing huge files (like the kind Poser can make), or when Windows really starts thrashing the swap file. You can always upgrade it though.

Message edited on: 05/09/2005 13:23