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I remember my 133MHz Cyrix. That was my first computer I had ever purchased.

IBM Aptiva
16MB RAM (upgraded later to a screaming 48MB!)
2GB HDD
15" CRT
 
Originally posted by: razor2025
I would wipe the Vista and install Windows XP if you're worried about the RAM count. C-7 have very low power consumption, so it should help with battery life. How many $400-500 laptop do you see around that can pull a 4:25 battery mark?
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Bingo. This isn't made to be a desktop replacement or a gaming powerhouse.

The target (especially at $399) is poor college kids, Grandma, etc. Mainly basic tasks like email and web browsing. And it will be spectacular for that.

I know it is popular to make fun of VIA but they really do make some great low-power chips.
 
Originally posted by: Odeen
Cyrix was purchased by Via to kick-start their CPU manufacturing.
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i remember cyrix ... in fact, i worked for 'em! when they were broken up national semi bought part of them (the integrated cpu line, media gx), and via bought the stand-along cpu line (the part of the company that floundered for three years trying to produce a part and ended up with nothing). via pretty much completely shut them down - after 6 months i heard there was nothing left. national kept us going for about three years, then sold us to amd. that lasted another 4 years. amd just closed the site last fall. cyrix truly is no more :-(

btw, anybody who's complaining about the speed, i have to agree - our cores were always slow, at least when i was there.

and to the guy waiting for his k5 - i worked on that too! man, what a clusterf***. i could tell you some stories ... !
 
Originally posted by: joecool
Originally posted by: Odeen
Cyrix was purchased by Via to kick-start their CPU manufacturing.
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i remember cyrix ... in fact, i worked for 'em! when they were broken up national semi bought part of them (the integrated cpu line, media gx), and via bought the stand-along cpu line (the part of the company that floundered for three years trying to produce a part and ended up with nothing). via pretty much completely shut them down - after 6 months i heard there was nothing left. national kept us going for about three years, then sold us to amd. that lasted another 4 years. amd just closed the site last fall. cyrix truly is no more :-(

btw, anybody who's complaining about the speed, i have to agree - our cores were always slow, at least when i was there.

and to the guy waiting for his k5 - i worked on that too! man, what a clusterf***. i could tell you some stories ... !
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I'd belive them too.
 
kmmatney said:


I overclcoked my Cyrix 486DX-66 to 80 MHz - it was pretty sweet for about 6 months.

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dayumm-remember those dx-66's? cyrix intel and amd - those were the days of options- could even get the sx if you didn't need a math co-processor

and tell me again, what was the math co-processor for?
 
Originally posted by: Pabster
Originally posted by: razor2025
I would wipe the Vista and install Windows XP if you're worried about the RAM count. C-7 have very low power consumption, so it should help with battery life. How many $400-500 laptop do you see around that can pull a 4:25 battery mark?
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Bingo. This isn't made to be a desktop replacement or a gaming powerhouse.

The target (especially at $399) is poor college kids, Grandma, etc. Mainly basic tasks like email and web browsing. And it will be spectacular for that.

I know it is popular to make fun of VIA but they really do make some great low-power chips.
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My torrent box runs on a 800mhz C3. It sits on all day, works great and doesn't even need a fan on the heatsink. Is it fast? Who cares...its not like I'm playing Quake4 on that machine.
 
Originally posted by: soflawill
kmmatney said:


I overclcoked my Cyrix 486DX-66 to 80 MHz - it was pretty sweet for about 6 months.

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dayumm-remember those dx-66's? cyrix intel and amd - those were the days of options- could even get the sx if you didn't need a math co-processor

and tell me again, what was the math co-processor for?
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Floating point operations I believe. I think the regular SX could do them, but it was dog slow.
 
Originally posted by: Blurry
512KB PC4200 DDR2 SDRAM for multitasking power, expandable to 2GB
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Trying running Vista with that 🙂
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vista sucks pretty bad why would you ever need vista on a laptop? This looks really hot cyrix used to be pretty good in the early 90s


Edit oh i see vista is preloaded 🙁 that sucks though i think you can downgrade for free to xp pro
 
Originally posted by: wazzledoozle
Those VIA cpu's are slow as hell. I have a 800 MHz "1.1 gigapro" and its slower than a 500 mhz p3.
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Actually, this is a very different CPU. It's roughly clock-for-clock equivalent to a Core Duo.
 
Back up too $450 now. Too bad. 🙁 Was an OK deal at $399. Not so great now considering what you can get for $50 or so more.
 
This system has a CPU developed by Centaur Technologies http://www.centtech.com/ in Austin Texas. They are the ones who developed the IDT Winchip, VIA C3, and VIA C7 processors. Their design focus is on power and cost. Performance is enough to do web surfing, office tasks, CD/DVD burning, and BASIC gaming. It is very snappy running WinXP(as is), Ubuntu(as is), and Vista (you should upgrade the memory to 1 gig). If you are buying this laptop you are buying it for battery life and basic computing not gaming/performance. One exception on performance is encryption/security. The C7-M has a built in hardware based encryption engine. It can outperform the fastest AMD/Intel chip on any encryption benchmark. The screen on this particular system is very choice too!

WalMart is selling the same notebook for $478
http://www.walmart.com/catalog/product.do?product_id=5673667
 
Originally posted by: geecee
Back up too $450 now. Too bad. 🙁 Was an OK deal at $399. Not so great now considering what you can get for $50 or so more.
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I see it at 399 again. 🙂
 
mine should arrive today if ups doesn't screw up again. i'll be testing it over the weekend to see how it is... hopefully not too bad
 
Originally posted by: eggrolls
mine should arrive today if ups doesn't screw up again. i'll be testing it over the weekend to see how it is... hopefully not too bad
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Post back with your impressions of it....
 
sure to become a classic at under 4 hundo, i sure do like the direction pricepoints are heading for a decent lappy

i too was a proud cyrix owner at a time when i was riding on rails on amd dx-40 with a full 14.4k twincom external modem!
 
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