More Napa platform details - power consumption

[K. Eng]

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/show ... =175001862

Looks like power consumption is back down to 855xM levels:

Speaking to a group of journalists here, Keith Kressin, director of marketing for Intel's mobile platforms group, said the platform, codenamed Napa, offers a 28 percent reduction in average power usage when compared with the company's current top-of-the-line Sonoma platform. Kressin said Napa offers an average power improvement of more than 1 watt when compared with Sonoma (3 watts compared with 4.2 watts).

And performance has gone up

Even as it decreases power usage, Napa offers better performance in terms of speed, Kressin said. Using various industry-standard benchmarks, Napa demonstrates a performance improvement of 30 percent to more than two-fold over Sonoma, he said.

"Napa offers substantially improved performance at the same time that we have this better battery life," Kressin said.

It looks like Intel is gearing up for a major launch at CES2006 (January 5-8). I'm betting that Lenovo will have a refresh of the Z60 series and introduce a T60 at the same time

[RS_003]

Don't think so...

Lenovo (IBM) is pretty slow with introducing new technologies
As we all have seen on the T42 / T43

[K. Eng]

I think the slowness applies to one specific area - video cards. IBM was slow to move to the Radeon 9600 and faster GPUs, causing no small amount of frustration with people who wanted something better than a Radeon 9000.

The T40 was available when the original Centrino was launched, and the T42 was available when the Dothan Pentium M was launched. Likewise, the T43 came out soon after the Sonoma platform launch. IBM was not slow to launch these systems.

I think IBM/Lenovo was actually faster than many other system manufacturers in introducing new technologies.

T41 introduced the APS, a feature still not in any other notebook except Apple PowerBooks.
T42 introduced a swipe fingerprint reader (I think some Micron PC notebooks had a fingerprint reader but not the swipe kind)
T43 introduced ExpressCard (kinda useless now, but try finding it on a Dell).

Scroll key, ThinkLight, Verizon compatible 3G Wireless (on Z60 series) are just a few other things IBM/Lenovo has that are hard to find on other systems.

Don't think so...

Lenovo (IBM) is pretty slow with introducing new technologies
As we all have seen on the T42 / T43

[RS_003]

Try a Vaio


Those EDGE wireless stuff whas on the T350P before it was on a Z60
Further there are enough laptops here in the EU with those swipe readers

Try a 10.6" Toshiba (Forgot the name, but same technology)

No flame intend
But imho thinkpads aren’t fast with adapting new technologies.

[K. Eng]

Maybe not in the EU or Japan, but walk into a Worst Buy or CompUSSR store here in the United States and most of the consumer grade stuff doesn't have many of the features found on ThinkPads.

[RS_003]

IC

No.. here in the EU almost all options are standard (bt, a/b/g, and so on)
Sure you can buy cheaper ones, but its harder to find a model with 1x 256mb, than with 1x 512mb

[tore45]

There'll be T60's announced 5. of January.

Looking forward to it.