converting user to linux

[Wade Chandler]

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