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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Buckwheat who wrote (27477)1/1/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (1) of 1570434
 
Buckwhaet - Re: "the bottomline implications of this 49% cpu power increase in a typical highend laptop system having a 13" active
matrix screen, 3 GB Hardrive, 24X CDROM, ...

1. Exceesive heat.
2. Reduced Battery life
3. or - reduced system features to compensate for the higher wattage
CPU
4. Reduced speed (lower frequency) and reduced perfromance to reduce power dissipation.
4. Special 2.2 voltage supply to accomodate the non-standard AMD CPU
5. Re-engineering of case & enclosure to remove heat from system

Paul
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