Leaner Computing: Less Might be More - I Want Low Voltage (Page 3 of 4 )
If many people I know can be happy with laptops running low voltage P3's and Celerons, or Pentium-M's and their castrated sibling the Celeron-M, I'd like to believe that Joe Sixpack can survive on a mini-ITX Shuttle box running integrated graphics and a Duron/Sempron or Celeron. Those at least carry a real sized monitor/LCD, as well as a full keyboard and sound system that doesn't sound equivalent to a can connected to the end of a string. And with a modern 7200RPM disk drive, unlike the mediocre 4200RPM drives choking most laptops, you even have expensive computer disk performance.
What I personally would love to see is the Pentium-M that Intel is so kind to have designed for their mobile applications make its way to the desktop. With the low voltage versions you might even be able to get away with a passive heatsink. Now that, combined with the additions inherent with the rest of the Alviso platform with the exception of the Intel graphics, would make an awfully nice little box for everyone who's not a gamer or scientist. A lot of people fit that description.
From some reports, Intel might just be planning something along this exact recipe for other markets. This "Shelton" chip would be exactly what the majority of people need. Of course Intel, keeping an eye on their bottom line, would never allow such a thing to come over here so long as people are content to shell out for their home heating devices... err... Prescott based P4's. Chipzilla isn't stupid, and knows the general computer buying public is.
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