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IBM Cancels Crusoe Laptop

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bad-timing dept.

sheckard writes: "News.com reports that IBM has suspended a project geared toward releasing a ThinkPad notebook with a Crusoe processor. This could be a very bad thing for Transmeta, since their IPO is rapidly approaching." The Transmeta IPO is supposed to be on the sixth of November - IBM has been doing work on examining it, but have decided to put off plans for it for the time being.

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  1. Enough already! by tippergore · · Score: 5
    "I know I'll probably get moderated down for this"

    However, I think that the Transmeta stuff has just gotten out of hand. If this was any other company, they would not get such attention, but simply because it has some affiliation with Linus Torvalds means that people actually care?

    Not really. Linux is great, but transmeta... what are they doing for me right now? Not all that much. What will they do for me in the future? Maybe a little, but not all that much again. It's like doing a 30 part series on the little IBM eraser nub pointing device. WE GET IT, WE GET IT, WE GET IT. Low power consumption. We get it. It's worth an article or two, but not 20.

    Move along, nothing new to see here, thanks.

  2. Re:I would not like to see Crusoe tarnished... by doctor_oktagon · · Score: 4

    The Crusoe, I am convinced, is a great processor. Big companies are just incredibly wary of it because it comes from a tiny little company that is iconified by the hero of the open source movement. Given that the higher-ups are less than optomistic about the little guys, regardless how good their products are, this really shouldn't come as much as a surprise.

    Explain: you are convinced it is great why?
    1) It relied on vapourware and almost Blair-Witch-esque hype before it was released (remember those "uses Alien Technology" stories kids?!)

    2) CPU power consumption is probably one of the lowest consuming elements of a laptop: those screens use the most

    3) It has Linus on the payroll! Fantastic: it was already signed off for production when he joined.

    Get over it people: it's just another processor. I agree whole-heartedly with it's aims of both code morphing and power saving, but it's nowhere near the revolution we were all promised. And it *was* televised :-)