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RE: You want to use a pentium in your wearable, eh?

Mostly I agree with you except.

1) I have quite often run pentium systems without fan, there are a lot
of good heat sink designs out there that do an adequate job.

2) Your power calcs are not too far off, for a standard pentium that is.
But the mobile version (last I remember checking) uses a lot less.  IT
is still more than a 486, but much much better than the standard
pentium.  ALso there are going to be a couple new mobile processors
released form intel to address this prob.  Rumor has it that power usage
in a baseline p200 can be cut in half by improving powersave routines
and better silicon designs.

3)  Silly as it sounds, some people have said that it could be useful
having a warmer processor.  (I'm not sure I totally agree but) and their
rationel is that HD's like to be kept warm (this would apply to outdoor
wearables) and perhaps tying the processor heatsink to an aluminum
enclosure would allow for a more consistant temperature inside the
wearable.

-----Original Message-----
From: R. Paul McCarty [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, March 26, 1998 2:53 PM
To: 
Subject: You want to use a pentium in your wearable, eh?

If this is everyones idea of a wearable computer, kudos to you, but its
not anywhere near mine.  I think you're crazy if you even consider using
a Pentium processor for your wearable, or any motherboard designed for
general purpose use without any of the power conscious engineering that
goes into PC/104 form factor designs (or at least most of them).

That's right, now give me your best shot back all you Intel Pentium
lovers; tell me how its nice to have that space-heater on your back, or
how it helps you get into shape lugging it up stair cases, or how its
great for getting stopped and having oral cavity searches every time you
go to the airport, because you can't convince the security guards that
you need a belt covered with batteries to power your wearable!

-Paul
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317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
Computers don't make mistakes;what they do,they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH

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