Comments on ‘Intel launches Core 2 Extreme for laptops’

"Extreme".. 

So Intel is back in the track to 180W heaters?

Extreme heat, extremely short battery life 

"Now you can play a DirectX 10 game on your laptop*

*) for 10 minutes."

Warranty ? 

So will it be Intel or the poor laptop manufacturers that have to honour all those warranty claims that will result from users' over enthusiastic experimentation with the clock speed. One too many megacycles extracted = more heat than a mobile device can cope with = short processor life.

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Which is the best Linux for laptops?

I have been starting to venture into the Linux/Unix world, currently using the Ubuntu 8.04 on my ThinkPad X60. But is there a better distro for mobiles?

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