Cheap Transmeta Notebooks?

Posted by Cliff on Monday November 27, 2000 @05:45PM from the are-these-out-yet? dept.

spoonboy42 asks: "Lately I've been drooling over these tiny new Crusoe-based subnotebooks. Unfortunately, as a student, they are out of my budget. Wasn't one of the Crusoe's benefits supposed to be low cost? Now that IBM has put their Transmeta notebooks on hold, is anyone else working on delivering a Crusoe laptop in the range of $1000-$1200? I'm not looking for anything fancy, a little bulk is fine, I just need a few simple features: Built-in CD-ROM, 800x600 (preferably higher) screen, PCMCIA, and an accessible SO-DIMM socket for a RAM upgrade. Anyone know of a laptop that fits this description?"

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Why Transmeta? Why Crusoe? by tooth · 2000-11-27 14:24 · Score: 2

i really know nothing about $US so I've got no idea what sort of dollar range your laptops go for (I'm from .au and we use peso now :) but how about considering a second hand intel laptop? I now it's not fancy or new, but I think an older laptop would fullfill what you need (cd-rom 800x600 pcmcia ram-upgrades) quite well.
Unless low power consumption was needed (you didn't say) i'd consider an second hand intel. if you hunt around you could probably find one in good condition too. remember that curuseo isn't blazing fast, and that you might get similar performance from an older intel chip. (not sure on that, haven't seen a lot of bench-marks)
just my $0.02 + 10% GST