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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94689)2/22/2000 11:05:00 PM
From: Joe NYC  Respond to of 1576348
 
Athlon doesn't seem ready to consume a lot less power.

Spitfire will consume less power, but probably still too much to go into a notebook. Notice lower voltage, lower clock speed (basically underclockeed chip). On-die L2 (as opposed to external) also consumes less power.

Joe



To: Jim McMannis who wrote (94689)2/23/2000 12:11:00 AM
From: Charles R  Respond to of 1576348
 
<Unfortunately, AMD needs a notebook chip and Athlon doesn't seem ready to consume a lot less power...>

Says who?


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