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To: HerbVic who wrote (18648)9/29/1998 1:55:00 PM
From: Alomex  Respond to of 213182
 


Incidentally, that excess heat that must be drained off comes at an energy penalty. The design of these laptops would allow roughly a 10% to 20% increase in battery life if they were using a Power PC processor instead of the "Intel inside."

Indeed, the PowerPC edge over Intel is (and will continue to be) particularly pronounced in portable computers and devices.