The power hour gcn
The power management BIOS from American Megatrends Inc. I had to press the Esc key to continue the startup.
#THE POWER HOUR GCN PORTABLE#
Hard-drive file access was slow compared with other portable and desktop computers.ĭuring bootup, the Imperial stopped and attempted to detect a slave device, such as a second hard drive. The GCNdex math benchmarks came close to desktop PC scores, although the integer math scores were somewhat low, probably from thermal problems. It achieved a fairly strong GCNdex32 video score of 4.08, better than most 133-MHz Pentium portables. The 1,024- by 768-pixel display was satisfactory if not very bright. Other features, also found in a desktop PC, are 512K secondary cache, 32M RAM expandable to 128M, 4M graphics accelerator, 3G hard drive and wavetable sound card.
The fan and the 11X CD-ROM drive made more noise than is usual in notebooks. The location slowed air passage, so the base got warm after about 10 minutes of operation. There was a fan to cool the processor and a credit card-sized heat sink on the underside. In normal use, it probably would run about two hours. On the GCN Lab's maximum power drain test, the Imperial's battery lasted barely an hour. does not yet make a power-conserving 233-MHz processor for the mobile market. The CPU is a Pentium MMX, which substantially drains the lithium-ion battery.