“IBM will begin testing the waters to determine whether or
not its customers will adopt an IBM ThinkPad powered by Transmeta’s
Crusoe processor, beginning with a demo of one of the laptops
running Windows 2000 at the PC Expo in New York next
week.“
“Leo Suarez, director of world wide product marketing at Armonk,
N.Y.-based IBM, said the first prototype is a stock IBM ThinkPad
model 240 that has undergone no special modification to incorporate
the Crusoe processor, a ultra-low-power chip that has gained much
attention since being introduced by Santa Clara, Calif.-based
Transmeta.”
“With this technical demonstration, we are trying to fill a
requirement we have had in the mobile space since day one,” which
is a smaller, lighter laptop computer that operates for the entire
length of the business day solely on battery power, Suarez
said.”