hello

i've been away from the PC scene for several years now and i just realized i'm almost a computer illiterate!

anywayz, i'm buying a notebook computer so took a short trip to local Bestbuy...

they had few Compaq notebooks that have AMD Athlon - one model I liked had Athlon 1.6+...it was really 1.4 so i was told...

I liked AMD cuz they seemed to be cheaper by 100-200 bucks compare to the same Intel models... I'm buying this for school work and i don't really need any fancy gizmos...

my question is, the current AMD Notebooks as good as Intel Notebooks? can u comment on Reliability, battery life, etc compare to Intel?

thanx in advance