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To: fingolfen who wrote (147496)	11/12/2001 12:34:36 PM
From: steve harris	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

re:cheap shots Not me fingolfen. There was a lot of mileage from a cheap shot with an Athlon failing with no heatsink. The point I was making is the Intel Speedstep problem results in shortened battery life and may become excessively warm. support.microsoft.com AMD has an issue with it's PowerNow! in it's laptop with XP also. It will result in the laptop not being able to take advantage of improved battery performance if it was using PowerNow. But not getting excessively warm or decreasing the battery life of the laptop. support.microsoft.com How many people run desktop computers without a heatsink compared to how many users are using laptops with XP loaded on them without the current updates? I'd bet that there are a lot more XP based laptops running around without the updates. Therefore, if you have certain Intel based laptops running Windows XP, you might want to get the updates as soon as possible and pick up an extra battery. Steve

To: fingolfen who wrote (147496)	11/12/2001 1:19:18 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Fin, >From where I sit it appears as if you're simply trying to troll and take cheap shots. That's Steve's job. You can't catch every combination in alpha or beta testing. None of these problems seem to be indicative of quality problems with either Intel products or the Microsoft operating system, but rather the normal growing pains one incurs when one changes operating system. The good news is that when you ship in the volumes Intel does, these things tend to get found, and fixed, earlier. If you buy "the other brand" you could get problems hypothetically for 4 - 5 times the period of time. I've experienced this with IBM vs. the clones, in larger systems. IBM is usually out of the woods and done with all their ECs well before the smaller guys. Tony