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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (32219)	3/19/2001 3:32:09 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (3) of 275872

Tench: By the way, you realize that AMD has much more room to "redefine" mobile clock speeds with PowerNow than Intel does with SpeedStep, right? Personally, I feel more uncomfortable with the ethics of selling a 1GHz Intel mobile as that, since it actually doesn't run at 1GHz on battery, unless you fidget with the BIOS settings. (at least that is my understanding - I have never actually used one!!) With PowerNow!, the processor will run at its rated speed if you are doing anything that requires the computing power - regardless of battery-state. If you're not doing anything, it will throttle down. To me, that seems more honest (as well as better). I will say that I haven't actually seen PowerNow! work, so I don't know if it actually does the job it claims on paper. Btw, whatever happened to the enhanced version of PowerNow!? and what about the enhanced version of SpeedStep, now that I'm on that topic? -fyo

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