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Old 02-17-2002, 03:34 AM
Janak Parekh
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Default What is it good for though?

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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
Battery life is a big one - the XScale has multiple settings that let it use as much or as little power as it needs. So if you're just viewing a contact, it will throttle back on power use HUGE. :-)
Jason, doesn't the StrongARM have substantial power saving as well? The battery life on the iPaq is much less when you're playing a CPU-intensive game.

I'm sure the XScale will come close to the StrongARMs' power consumption, altho I'd be curious to know if it would beat it.

--bdj
 
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