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Via One-ups Transmeta

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the lower-power-equals-happier-laptops dept.

An aonymous reader submitted that"Via just announced the Eden platform, which promises lower power consumption than Transmeta. If it follows the C3 line of CPUs, I'm guessing it will also deliver much better performance at a lower cost (the C3s gave significantly better performance than Transmeta, but at just under 10W, so a bit more power)."

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  1. What? by dj28 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    An "aonymous" reader? Is that something close to 'anonymous'?

    1. Re:What? by linzeal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The spelling challanged reader probably is none other than commander taco himself. Scandel (sic)!

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  2. Low power by percy's+other · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    In the scheme of things, does it really matter? Does anything really matter? The only true power is that of Our Lord. Papa Smurf provides, and we are content.

  3. Re:Excellent.. by YKnot · · Score: 4, Offtopic

    There are more energy-hogs in a laptop than just the cpu. Display, harddisk and recently the graphics accelerators need a good share of the battery life. Decreasing the power consumption of the cpu alone won't get us very much closer to the one-day-per-charge laptop, although it's certainly a step in the right direction. Other interesting applications of less wasteful processors are clusters and servers, which otherwise need expensive cooling.

  4. Speaking of laptop power savings: LED backlights? by timothy · · Score: 3, Offtopic

    I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable than me can shed light (ha ha) on the possibilities for white-LED backlights in laptops.

    Certain high-end digital cameras (like the newest Nikon SLRs) have white LED backlights for their LCD displays. White LED prices are dropping (USD7.88 for a nice little waterproof, floating flashlight at Walmart :) !), and power consumption on white LEDs is ridiculously low. As I understand it, the backlight is the biggest draw in a lot of laptops, especially turned up bright.

    So why don't we see some low-power LED-light screens? I'd pay $200 more easily for my next laptop if it got (for instance) 50% more battery life.

    What's stopping those? Considering that there are now several approaches (AMD, Intel, Transmeta and now VIA) to saving power on laptop processors, what about the other powerhogs? :)

    timothy

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