converting user to linux

[neil]

wchandler at redesetgrow.com 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.