Emachines intros Athlon 64 54G notebooks

US FIRM Emachines confirms it has released two machines in a line of mobile Athlon 64 machines using 54G wireless technology.

The M6805/M6807 use the 3000+ mobile version of the chip, and include 15.4-inch displays, Radeon 9600, combined DVD/CD-RW drive and cost $1,449 and $1,549 respectively. The secon dmodel has a multi-format DVD-RW(+/-) optical drive.

Both machines use Broadcoms 54G chipset. while the notebooks come bundled with Windows XP Home, Microsoft Works, Money 2004, and a number of other software packages including a 90-day Norton Antivirus bundle.

The notebooks also include a 6-1 media reader, 512MB DDR memory, a 60GB hard drive, Firewire, PCMCIA slot, and built in 10/100 Ethernet. µ