Linux Notebook VIA Antaur CPU

[Taavi Burns]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 10:23:02 -0500, Steve <bassix-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Does anyone know anything about this notebook? http://www.sub500.com/port.htm
> 
> It uses the VIA Antaur CPU which is supposed to have incredibly low
> power consumption (when compared to Intel and AMD), but what about the
> speed? Is this thing fast enough?

VIA seems to claim that its fast enough for watching DVDs:
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/processors/c3-m/

I know that my Duron 1GHz is, too.  Though I'd expect my Duron to
perform a little
better than a C3 (particularly at floating point), it's probably just
fine for the kind of
work one would expect to be able to do on such a machine.

(I make comments about the floating point only insofar as my old Cyrix MII-300
was slower at MP3 decoding (back in the day) than a P200MMX, but WAY faster
at cracking RC5)

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