Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...

Tom Evans tevans.uk at googlemail.com
Mon May 14 16:48:14 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 10:18 -0500, Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 05/14/07 10:07, Tom Evans wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:17 +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
> >> That's alright, but I don't think we are going to look for single core
> >> cpu anymore these days, maybe just for tabletpc to save power?
> >>
> > 
> > If your primary concern is as a road warrior, then battery life might
> > appeal to you more than a 40% reduction in 'make buildworld'.
> > 
> > Personally I love my dual core lappy, but I use battery power about 10%
> > of the time, and always under 1 hour.
> 
> 
> Note that a Core 2 Duo processor may use noticeably less power than a 
> single core <something else>.
> 
> 
> Eric
> 

I find it still uses more juice with both cores enabled than just one -
in which case, surely a Core Solo might be a better bet. I'm not sure on
availability of Core 2 Duo ULV processors in off-the-shelf laptops.
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