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Confused? If you think it's vexing telling a notebook from a subnotebook, wait until you try distinguishing one notebook model from another. There are at least 100 U.S. nationally advertised vendors who market notebooks, many of whom sell generic systems manufactured by a small number of Taiwan companies...
...three or four notebook vendors market machines based on the Intel 80x86 family of microprocessors and running the MS-DOS operating system and often Window. The latest member of the family is the 80486 line, which contains over one million transistors and generally runs at faster speeds than older 286s and 386s...
Also popular with notebook buyers are systems built around Intel's 386SL CPU/A member of the successful 80386 series, the chip was designed to prolong battery lives on notebooks, one of the biggest concerns for notebook users. It does so through a lower power requirement, an internal memory cache that Intel claims can speed up operations by up to 20 percent, and built in power-management circuitry that helps per serve as much power as possible...
Despite the innovations, until better battery, technology is developed, users need be wary, since a notebook system is likely to exhaust its battery in about two hours...
...biggest electric power consumption in a notebook comes from the CPU, the hard disk, and the liquid crystal display, or ICD, screen, Most modern notebooks to run as long as possible on a single charge, have some sort of power management, with or without the help of a 386SI. A software driver determines which devices have bean idle of a lecture always looms over your notebook computing life. One solution: Get a notebook that uses nickel hydride (NH) batteries, which on the average have 50% longer life than the more common and lest expensive nickel cadmider...