From: Ow M. H. <Ow....@wd...> - 2004-05-21 18:19:28
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On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 11:08, Nakajima, Jun wrote: > To get longer battery life, you need to use P-state transitions via > Enhanced SpeedStep as well. Which means we have to use the drivers provided by Intel?? Or do you just mean the speedstep functions? I have cpuspeedfreq installed and when I'm quoting the number of hours, I actually am quoting it with cpufreq turned on and running at 600Mhz only with nothing plugged into the USB, backlight at it's dimmest and all that. (Even the fan is turned off!) No JOY! So.. Centrino gives a better/longer Batt life?? MY foot! It actually depends on the batt capacity the OEM gives you! The extra 1MB cache in Pentium-M is nice though. :) What I wouldn't give to get a fuel cell laptop |