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- From: fj05+@andrew.cmu.edu (Faisal Nameer Jawdat)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: P5 v. PowerPC (WAS: Where the mac really wins)
- Message-ID: <Mf_Pcfi00Vp=8UNyZG@andrew.cmu.edu>
- Date: 12 Dec 92 00:08:43 GMT
- Article-I.D.: andrew.Mf_Pcfi00Vp=8UNyZG
- Organization: Sophomore, Physics, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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- chyang@panthro.engin.umich.edu (Chung Hsiung Yang) writes:
- > For notebooks, you could include power management, by varing the
- > speed of the processor - to slow down the clock speed when the processor
- > sits idle. But using DEC Alpha in notebooks would be an overkill, I agree.
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- For you, maybe, but I'd just *love* to be able to carry around a
- notebook with that much power run X on it, and compile my fortran
- programs in it, etc., etc. so i could take my work with me...
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