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- From: rww@mugwump.cl.msu.edu (Richard W. Wiggins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Cyrix 486SLC chip; notebook PCs
- Date: 11 Jan 1993 01:21:41 GMT
- Organization: Michigan State University
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- I'm in the market for a notebook PC. One that looks good to me is
- the Compuadd with the Cyrix 486SLC chip. None of the reviews I've
- seen gush over this machine, but the keyboard seems very good to me,
- and I like the way they've implemented their trackball.
-
- However, a couple folks have told me that the Cyrix chip is not
- really a 486, but rather a souped-up 386 clone. Can someone confirm
- or deny this? What does this actually mean -- the chip doesn't really
- implement the 486 instruction set? (If true, this seems awfully close
- to false advertising.) A Compuadd ad claims that this notebook has
- fast floating capacity compared to its 386 competitors -- so does the
- Cyrix 486 have onboard math coprocessor, or is that a separate chip?
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- The other machine that looks appealing to me is the new IBM Thinkpad 700,
- which has an IBM 486 chip. Any insights on that CPU?
-
- Thanks.....
- /rich
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