By Aled Herbert, 9 March 2000 15:15
NEWS Mac publications and Web sites are rife with speculation that Apple is considering building notebooks based around Transmeta's Crusoe processors.
Reports state that sources inside Apple claim to have seen a prototype PowerBook design with a developmental third-party mainboard supporting a 700MHz Crusoe processor using Wintel hardware.
Apple has been hamstrung recently by delays to Motorola's timetable for faster versions of its G4 PowerPC range of processors, which are currently frozen at 500MHz.
Transmeta has posited its Crusoe processors as an ideal solution to reducing CPU drain on battery life in mobile computing devices. The company claims the low-power consumption of its chips will allow for the creation of miniature devices which have equivalent power to a conventional PC.
Apple declined to comment at the time of publishing.
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