[SunRescue] Intel Tadpole P100?
Gregory Leblanc
rescue at sunhelp.org
Thu Jan 25 14:44:03 CST 2001
On 25 Jan 2001 15:19:45 -0500, Jonathan Katz wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Tadpole made the first Pentium laptops (6mos ahead of Dell and others,
> etc.) They actually used a real P-100 and not one of the ones which
> was made w/ low power consumption and laptops in-mind.
All I have to say about that is "Ugh". There's a reason there are
different chips for use in laptops. I've got a laptop with a desktop
proc, and the battery life is 20% less than comparable machines running
a mobile processor, not to mention that the thing runs hot all of the
time. :(
Greg
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