[PLUG] Re: It was not my destiny to own a Compaq notebook with Linux

[AthlonRob]

Wil Cooley wrote:
> May I ask why you want an Athlon 64 so badly?  They might be the best
> performance for your money, but they're very new--new enough that I
> haven't had my hands on any.

They're new, yes, but "very new" ?

If Google is not lying to me, I believe the chip was released on 22 Sep
2003 and was in circulation by January of 2004.