Crusoe

Onyx · 17th January 2005, 9:16 PM

VIA/Transmeta Crusoe chipped notebooks. How are their performance in comparison to the say the P-M or Cel-M's (or U-LV's)? Fujitsu has one advertised I think 700Mhz but batt life with standard cells is claimed 4.5 hours, which is not more than Pentium-M based systems at twice the clock speed.

Would their performance be as crappy as their low clockspeed and 256kb L2 cache suggest?

munka · 18th January 2005, 12:26 AM

No, the P-M will be much faster, however i think you will find that the fujitsu notebook uses a tiny 2-4 cell batery compared to a P-M which would need 8cell to get the equivelant.

The machine in general will be much smaller.

jascii · 18th January 2005, 11:01 AM

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Originally Posted by Onyx

VIA/Transmeta Crusoe chipped notebooks. How are their performance in comparison to the say the P-M or Cel-M's (or U-LV's)?

The 700mhz model should be just a little bit swifter than a simillarly spec'd pentium 3. It should have enough grunt for general browsing, DVD and Xvid decoding and word processing, but not much else.

17th January 2005, 9:16 PM	#1
Onyx Member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: NSW Posts: 3,802	Crusoe VIA/Transmeta Crusoe chipped notebooks. How are their performance in comparison to the say the P-M or Cel-M's (or U-LV's)? Fujitsu has one advertised I think 700Mhz but batt life with standard cells is claimed 4.5 hours, which is not more than Pentium-M based systems at twice the clock speed. Would their performance be as crappy as their low clockspeed and 256kb L2 cache suggest? __________________ Q9300@3.0Ghz, Asus P5Q-E, Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066 4GB, Gigabyte GTX260+, 2xWD5000AAKS RAID-0 boot volume, Seasonic S12+ 550W PSU in Gigabyte Poseidon case. Dell E248WFP 24" monitor.

18th January 2005, 12:26 AM	#2
munka Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Perth Posts: 1,851	No, the P-M will be much faster, however i think you will find that the fujitsu notebook uses a tiny 2-4 cell batery compared to a P-M which would need 8cell to get the equivelant. The machine in general will be much smaller.