[ Thanks to Kelly
McNeill for this link. ]
“I can’t really say I told you so to anyone reading this
article, because I never made my feelings about Transmeta known
early enough. I can say that I knew the chips would be X86
compatible, and that’s all I knew. That was until I started reading
about these super-cool and energy efficient chips….”
“I actually thought of giving up hope on a silent desktop
computer, but then came Transmeta with their Crusoe processors. The
first thing I realized was that with such a super-cool processor,
we would no longer need CPU fans. I think Transmeta realized
though that the design and concept of desktop computers would
forever leave consumers with a lot of noise coming out of their
power supply fans. For that reason, I have decided that my next
computer will be a Transmeta based portable. I had to ask myself
several questions to make my decision. The first thing was, “Do I
really NEED to have a desktop computer?…”