Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 02:10:46 -0000
From: EvangeList <evangelist@apple.com>
Subject: Tidbit - Pentium II Hot to Handle

Keyword: Advocacy, Windows Daymares

This tidbit is from: 

Jon L.Gardner

This is great! There's a front-page article in the March 9 InfoWorld 
about Katmai, the code name for Intel's Pentium II processor for laptops. 
Naturally, the article is very upbeat, but get this: the Katmai will suck 
14-15 Watts of juice when running at full speed, so they'll have to 
throttle it back whenever it's on batter power (read: much slower) to get 
any life at all out of the batteries. In addition, the dude will be too 
hot to handle...the article quotes several laptop manufacturers:

"We may have to rearchitect the chassis to accept a deeper heat sink."

"Coming up with ways to get the heat out of the system will separate the 
men from the boys...some manufacturers who don't have the R&D may have to 
ship an external fan with the system to use when it is running at 450MHz."

"It means a redesign of the motherboard, as well as coming up with a 
secondary method of cooling...maybe we'll need a second fan that comes on 
when the system is plugged in."

Now, I don't know about you, but I can't WAIT to see some poor schmuck 
trying to use one of these on an airplane, ironing the creases out of his 
trousers in the process! Maybe we could make some money here...how about 
an asbestos "Evangelista Pentium Protection Pad--to put between you and 
the CPU...."

It lends a whole new meaning to the lyrics, "Burn, baby, burn!"