On 6/29/2010 11:38 PM, Robert Redelmeier wrote:
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Robert wrote in part:
Energy efficiency is the new wild card. It's the only consideration
I can imagine that would justify cutting it so close.

Older problems, but perhaps related/continuing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/te...gy/29dell.html

Quite the come down for a company which was a model taught at the
Harvard business school. But in reality, even back when it was a
business darling, people knew they were sitting on a slippery slope.
It's real business model lay in the taking of subsidies from bigger
companies that acted as its sugar daddy.

Yousuf Khan