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Low power usage in typical notebooks?
By goku on 3/2/2008 11:16:07 PM , Rating: 4
Now this technology is quite appealing, however what I want to know is can they put this technology with the core architecture or not. I want a laptop that in battery mode, gets amazing battery life and in AC mode provides lots of performance. What I'm seeing is intel doing all the power saving for small devices and little for the bigger devices. It's like if they have a 4 cell battery, they use a less power consuming processor, if it has a 12 cell battery, they put a more power consuming processor. Why can't I have a 12 cell battery and a low power consuming components?

The current line of Core2duo laptops gets worse battery life than the original Pentium M based ones which is a damn shame. I'd expect to see BETTER battery life not worse.

By KristopherKubicki (blog) on 3/2/2008 11:33:24 PM , Rating: 2
The thing is this is a new chip from the ground up. There isn't a lot of technology that can drop in Penryn.

RE: Low power usage in typical notebooks?
By mtaclof on 3/3/2008 10:58:26 AM , Rating: 2
Personally, I wish they'd consider this sort of low-wattage CPU for use in laptops. A question for the more technically educated guys out there is: How hard would it be to engineer laptop boards that have two CPU's, a power/performance CPU and an efficiency CPU. The board would dynamically switch procs depending on demand/power available/user specification. Could this be realized as a way to provide both long battery life and high-performance?

By A5 on 3/3/2008 11:29:40 AM , Rating: 3
That would be extremely difficult and expensive. I suppose it would be possible with enough work, but I don't see it happening.

By excrucio on 3/4/2008 2:34:32 PM , Rating: 2
AMD new PUMA release has just showed you the door.

By coldpower27 on 3/4/2008 12:03:30 PM , Rating: 2
They weren't able to keep the processor in the same Thermal envelope, so that is to be expected compared to the Pentium M, with the upcoming Montevina platform you will have some 25W TDP Penryn which are close to the 21W TDP of the 90nm Single Core Pentium M, so battery life should be similar but perforance muh improved compared the processor of back then.


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