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To: chris431 who wrote (60618)	10/16/2000 6:32:08 PM
From: CapitalLosses	Read Replies (1) of 122087

Hello again, Actually, on the subject of CPUs, I would be even more interested in your opinion of TMTA. ZDNet just reviewed the first Crusoe product and the short story is: TMTA has no product. They claim to have a chip that gives mobile-PIII performance at a fraction of the power-draw. But what I read into the ZDNet review is, this doesn't describe the Crusoe. Perfomance was on par with a low-end and very old pentium and battery life was what you would expect for a two-pound subnotebook -- 2.5 hours -- nowhere near TMTA's claims of 8-10 hours. Toshiba said the same thing two months ago in a public spanking it gave TMTA, which has been keeping the performance specs of the Crusoe family a closely guarded secret -- strange for a company with a supposedly revolutionary CPU. SS TMTA @... oh, wait, TMTA hasn't IPO'd yet. I hope it doesn't get rejected by the market. TMTA's latest requiem: zdnet.com TMTA's previous requiem: vnunet.com snip --- Steve Crawley, Toshiba UK's product marketing manager, said that the company had no plans to introduce Crusoe into future Toshiba products. "[Crusoe] does give a reasonable increase in battery life, but nothing like Transmeta's publicity is claiming. The back light consumes a lot of power - one quarter of the power is used pushing light out. Realistically, in sub-notebooks it gives a 30 to 40 per cent increase in battery life," he said. He added that Toshiba currently has prototypes of ultra-light notebooks with eight hour battery life using Intel rather than Transmeta chips. "This can be done with a standard Intel box," he said. --- snip -CLs

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