Transmeta chips

Does anyone have any experience with these chips.

I have read about some of thier blunders . But I'm curious so see if any can say that thier manufacturing mishaps are behind them.

I'm looking at new laptops and I want to know what I'm getting into.

All I have heard is that they are very slow but have low power consumption.

I wonder why flipstart didn't use the crusoe replacement ? I wish they would have put a pc card slot on the flipstart it would have been a great replacement for my U101 that is about to die.

I have read the same sorts of things. I am very curious to see how slow they run. I dont want to drop the money on a notebook with a transmeta chip only to find that it take hours to render in Photoshop.

I have an ECS Elitegroup Desknote with a Transmeta Crusoe TM5600. It's 600 MHz but should behave like 1 GHz. Running XP, i would say, that it doesn't reach 1Gig. It feels very slow and sometimes "sticky". But it has no fan, only passive cooling. It doesn't heat up much, and it runs 4-5 hours with the standard-Accu. It's the right thing for reading the BBS in the garden or in bed... cool and silent. And i can watch a whole DVD with one full charged batterypack. That's what i wanted. For rendering or other CPU-bound tasks i wouldn't reccomend it.
I'll try linux with a 2.6 kernel on it someday, but too busy for now.