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To: Ian@SI who started this subject10/15/2000 1:08:39 PM
From: sylvester80  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Transmeta's 600MHz CPU is 30+% slower than a PII-400MHz.

Yes, you heard right. Pentium 2, II, 400Mhz. So in other words, the transmeta CPUs suck.

Now you may say, yes they suck in performance but do they they last much longer on battery? Not quite. And not even close to the percentage that they suck in performance. And I wonder if Intel had a CPU with such low performance maybe it would last even longer than the Transmeta one. Here is the review and the numbers. Another hyped up product that fails to leave to its expectations (didn't transmeta also supported DDR? LMAO. ha ha ha ha. what a joke of a CPU...)

pcworld.com

"But at what cost? Mininotebooks traditionally score poorly on performance tests, so we didn't expect the new PictureBook to break any PC WorldBench 2000 records. Still, its score of 66 is shockingly low. Even with half the memory of the Transmeta unit, the older Pentium II-based PictureBook scored an 81, so you're losing a noticeable 19 percent in performance (maybe even more, since the older unit would probably perform better with equivalent memory)."

And that Pentium-II was a 400Mhz CPU and with less memory. Man, that Transmeta is sloooooooow.... and battery is not that much greater. Read the review above.
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