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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (43578)	6/9/2001 12:10:01 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

"Now who was that who said Nvidia had no plans for a mobile nforce when I suggested it?" Considering that nForce supports PowerNow!, a battery-eating laptop could be produced soon. Since MSI claims to have a Crush11 motherboard in July, even very soon.

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (43578)	6/9/2001 1:22:59 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Jim, this is from 2 days ago and has Nvidia talking about mobile nForce. extremetech.com For now, however, the chipset will only be paired with microprocessors from Advanced Micro Devices Inc., due to technical and legal reasons. But Nvidia executives said a mobile version of the nForce was likely, and didn't rule out a product for Apple Computer Inc.'s Macintosh. The key enhancement, Nvidia executives claimed, is that an onboard speculative preprocessor—essentially a level-3 cache for the microprocessor--will boost NForce system performance by about 10 to 15 percent "NForce, we believe, will change the face of the computer platform," said Jeff Fisher, the senior vice-president of sales for Nvidia, Santa Clara, Calif. The nForce, based upon the GeForce2 graphics core, is similar to the .... LDT in a Mac that would be kewl. M.