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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (32219)	3/19/2001 3:29:02 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Ten, All I know is that if I'm going to by a 1 gig notebook and run it at 700 Mhz, I might as well just buy a 700 Mhz notebook. Anything else is just marketing...Really doesn't matter for Intel because they pretty much own the mobile market anyway. AMD apparently forgot that Mhz sells (TM-McMannis) also applies to the mobile market. Duh. RE:"By the way, you realize that AMD has much more room to "redefine" mobile clock speeds with PowerNow than Intel does with SpeedStep, right?" Didn't know that, please elaborate. Jim

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (32219)	3/19/2001 3:32:09 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to 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