From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E5648C9.6010207@nas.com> From: Jack Johnson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Off the shelves plan9-compatible desktop References: <8ec41dc38f20ad783b0de87596435ab2@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 07:42:01 -0800 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6d15a018-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 okamoto@granite.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp wrote: > As I got tired of debugging, I travelled into internet, and found > Lindows Mobile PC, which may be nice also to Plan 9. http://info.lindows.com/mobilepc/mobilepc.htm for anyone else curious. > VIA C3 933 MHz Processor, <--- what's that? > > any opinion? The VIA C3 is a Pentium-compatible processor, typically on par with a PII about half it's speed, give or take. They tend to be popular with the quiet PC crowd (and some of the blade server people) because they can be run fanless. They're extremely low power processors (10W consumption for the 1GHz C3) so there's some potential for battery life to be OK, though the processor usually isn't the largest power draw in a laptop (unless you have a P4m, which can *dissipate* up to 8W of power while in sleep mode and 35W number crunching -- though potentially with 4x the performance). For more performance info: http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20020605/index.html http://www.vanshardware.com/articles/2001/september/010921_Transmeta_v_C3/010921_Transmeta_v_C3.htm -Jack