Dadi Perlmutter Keynote

IDF 08-27-06 Afternoon session
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screen would have been lifted up so I don't have to kind of look
forward and have my neck and my back hurt." So I talked to our
Concept PC person, and he said, "We'll think about this one."
After awhile, he came back with this. And of course, you can
take it up and down. He said, "It's smaller than you asked for,
because if you want to see a movie, you can really go and make
it like that.” And by the way, this special feature is also
especially for you, because when you fly coach, and I usually fly
coach, you can really, when the guy in front of you reclines, you
can really go and type like that. So, anybody fly coach and try to
work and read this notebook like that? Not anymore if you use
this. So, we work with our partners. They're going to take this to
market in PRC and in Germany and there's more to come.
When you talk about mobility, you always ask about battery life.
People want more and more battery life. We improved battery
life quite significantly when we moved from Pentium to Centrino,
and we are now running in the range of four or five hours quite
nicely, and we improved it since then [unintelligible]. It's a lot of
work. Our first move has been cutting power from our CPU and
our chip sets, but this is way from being enough. You will have
to go cut power across the platform in order to make it battery
life and the power reduced. By the way, just to memorize,
cutting one watt gives you about 25 to 30 minutes, give or take
a few.
So, this graph that you have on here shows you certain things
that we are doing. I'm going to touch on two. One of them is
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