Segment #2: Thin And Light. nuts and bolts of notebooks. A brief description of the notebook segments spiced with PCMCIA, Battery, VGA and other mobile specialties.. When was the last time you used your floppy drive? When you possess a CD-ROM or network...

• -Nuts and Bolts of Notebooks

Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt" by Michael Tapes. The music and flipping background for every section introduction within each chapter is grating - even annoying - but otherwise these video segments are well done. In the first chapter, Tapes sets out to convince...

the needs of the notebook makers, which are good driver support, same footprint for different chips to serve different segments of the market, low power consumption and no need for external memory. NVIDIA is expanding to every segment of the graphics business....

1 red, 1 green and 1 blue), or 4 segments (1 red, 1 green, 1 blue and 1 white), 6 segments (1 red, 1 green, 1 blue, then 1 red, 1 green and 1 blue again), and even 8 segments with several white ones. The fewer the segments, the less rapidly the disk turns,...

this, the developers came up with "intelligent" wiring. The eight-way set-associative L2 cache is split into four sectors per way and is thus divided into 32 segments altogether. When accessed, the cache logic ensures that only one addressed segment (32 kB)...