Re: converting user to linux

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 





wchandler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Ron Goulard wrote:

On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 11:49, Wade Chandler wrote:


That's pretty good time on the battery for a Sony. I'm lucky to get one hour with all the drivers installed on my work laptop. Of course I'm running Windows XP on it. :-)



So I've had others tell me, but in comparing it to a friend's machine it's not that great (he's getting 4-5 hrs). Mind you, his is a less power hungry centrino running XP with full access to the ACPI stuff.

I like the extra cpu cycles and I'm willing to wait for better linux
acpi support.  At least I know my laptop won't become a spam daemon
anytime soon (or worse) :)

Ron


Yeah,

Mine is a P4 Mobile. I don't think it is Centrino. It runs good, just eats up the battery. That and it fragments the disk a lot. I definitely like EXT3 over NTFS. It has it's affect on the system performance as well (less disk grinding).

Wade



There's a good howto on linux laptop power saving here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO-19.html#ss19.7

Turning off file update time stamps can be usefull too. Just can't remember how at this moment.
neil.





[Index of Archives]     [Current Fedora Users]     [Fedora Desktop]     [Fedora SELinux]     [Yosemite News]     [Yosemite Photos]     [KDE Users]     [Fedora Tools]     [Fedora Docs]

  Powered by Linux