____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Friday 18 January 2008 22:11 : \____
> On a personal note...turns out my Gnome battery indicator
> was not quite as optimistic as I thought. Sitting largely
> idle, my laptop lasted for more than 2 hours purely on
> battery power. However, it might have lasted even longer
> under Windows, since the latter apparently knows how to
> throttle down the processor when idle. Reviews suggests
> close to 3 hours. I'll have to test this under XP at
> some point.
>
>
http://reviews.cnet.com/laptops/hp-compaq-nx9010-series/4505-3121_7-30474669.html
Servers are already optimised for power and performance. A laptop that comes
with Windows is less likely to have all the tools and tweaks that handle the
fan/s, hard-drive rotation etc. in the best possible way.
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