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To: kash johal who wrote (96831)	1/20/2000 1:22:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 186894

Kash, <In that environment good performance and full software compatibiity is more important than 3 hr batter life vs 6 hrs.> I agree totally, but I'm almost positive there are plenty of people out there who really want their laptops to be portable, and six hours of battery life over three means a lot to them. (One example would be undergrad and grad students who jump from lecture to lecture using their laptops to take notes.) I acknowledge that a majority of laptops out there are plugged in 99% of the time, hence AMD's success in pushing out the power limits of their mobile processors. But that doesn't mean there isn't a market for PC laptops (not handhelds) with long battery life. So in short, I understand Transmeta's plan-of-attack. Whether they can actually succeed or not is a different story. There are just too many risk factors, including two big players in the game (Intel and AMD) who won't sit still should Transmeta succeed. Tenchusatsu