wchandler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
There's a good howto on linux laptop power saving here: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Laptop-HOWTO-19.html#ss19.7Ron 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
Turning off file update time stamps can be usefull too. Just can't remember how at this moment.
neil.
