Cheap Transmeta Notebooks? 6
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?"
Why Transmeta? Why Crusoe? (Score:2)
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
Why the obsession with transmeta? (Score:1)
all the battery life, and their available now. probably faster too.
of course, you miss the linus worship factor, but you can still run linux on it...
One word: (Score:1)
They will run OS X, as well as several flavours of Yoo-Nix.
Re:One word: (Score:1)
Thinkpad 240 (Score:1)
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Or you could pay a pittance and get a second (or even first) had K6-2+ based note, but you'll loose battery life.