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To: Buckwheat who wrote (27477)	1/1/1998 9:37:00 AM
From: Yousef	Respond to of 1570499

Buckwheat, Re: "What would be the bottomline implications of this 49% cpu power increase in a typical highend laptop system ..." The "bottomline implications" are that the .25um K6 notebook would have a shorter battery life ... but more importantly, the higher operating voltage will cause the K6 to be a lower speed CPU for both notebook and desktop operation as compared to Intel offerings. Make It So, Yousef

To: Buckwheat who wrote (27477)	1/1/1998 2:00:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570499

Buckwhaet - Re: "the bottomline implications of this 49% cpu power increase in a typical highend laptop system having a 13" active matrix screen, 3 GB Hardrive, 24X CDROM, ... 1. Exceesive heat. 2. Reduced Battery life 3. or - reduced system features to compensate for the higher wattage CPU 4. Reduced speed (lower frequency) and reduced perfromance to reduce power dissipation. 4. Special 2.2 voltage supply to accomodate the non-standard AMD CPU 5. Re-engineering of case & enclosure to remove heat from system Paul

To: Buckwheat who wrote (27477)	1/2/1998 2:34:00 AM
From: Buckwheat	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570499

Yousef and Paul,, More debunking of Intel bunk. It would appear that processor voltage has little to do with the battery life of notebook computers (in the grand scheme of all required components). Page 220 of the Jan 98 Computer Shopper gives the ZD test results of 5 brand new 233 mhz Intel Mobile Processor computers. The BatteryMark 2.0 tests of the five range from 2 hrs. 40 min. (worst) to 4 hrs. 47 min. (best). That's a pretty sizeable real world spread. These machines all have identical Intel Mobile 233 mhz processors. It is also noteworthy that the best performing of the five (to include battery life) is the only machine tested that does not use Intel's new Mobile Module interface (IMM). The machine is built by Micron. So 1.8 volts, 2.1 volts, 2.2 volts .... what is the real significance of this? Buckwheat