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Anonymous   03-10-2001 at 10:04:18 PM

A few days ago I came across a company selling 1GHz notebooks. Well I knew that there were no mobile chips of this speed so I sent them an e-mail. They claim they use a desktop PIII in the notebook. I was wondering if this is plausible or even possible. It was my impression that the higher energy requirements and high degree of heat from desktops make this impractical. The PIII datasheets suggest a height of 2.09 inches for the chip and heat sink (well 1.89 inches for the chip and heat sink plus .2 inches for an air circulation gap). While I realize that this height may be drastically reduced I still question the ability to fit a PIII processor in a laptop that claims to be 2.2 inches thick. Before I talk again to their tech support people I thought I might get the opinion of some of the experts that frequent Tom’s Hardware.

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kal326   03-12-2001 at 02:13:12 AM
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Um, my best guess would be NO F*CKING WAY. The notebook chips and desktop chips have totally differant form factors. They would have to addapt a FC-PGA chip to the notebook or the notebook socket to FC-PGA. Also the power requirements are differant and the mobiles have less cooling availible. I think somebody is just messing with ya. The only mobile chips that I have ever seen were K6-2 mobiles and the whole chip assembly was about the size of a dime.

A mime is a great this to waste! :lol:

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