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To: fyodor_ who wrote (37777)4/30/2001 12:58:18 AM
From: PetzRead Replies (2) of 275872
 
fyo, I think you missed the main point of John Evan's post, that a PowerNow! notebook could be legitimately and legally called a 1.3 GHz notebook if it allows the user the run off of batteries at 1.3 GHz. The battery life may be very short at that speed, PowerNow-enabled or not, but probably not much worse than a PIII "1 GHz" notebook that is overriden to run at 1 GHz when run off batteries.

In fact, such a "1.3 GHz notebook" would be far superior to the Intel 1 GHz notebooks because it need not be run at full voltage and full frequency except for very occasional peaks of processing requirements. If PowerNow can control voltage 1.1 and 1.4 and switch frequency between 500 MHz and 1 GHz, it can also control voltage between 1.1 and 1.6 and switch frequency between 500 MHz and 1.3 GHz.

Petz
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