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On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 05:43:27PM +0100, Anders Ellensh?j Andersen wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 November 2003 13:41, Caoilte O'Connor wrote:
> 
> > who could face loading all of KDE when running on batteries.
> > yuck.
> 
> Excuse me but how can using KDE impact your battery life?
> 

All the eye candy stresses the cpu and there are some background daemons
that stress both the cpu and fire up the hardrive (although linux does
that anyway every about 30 secs especially with journaled file systems)
All this takes battery power (how much depends on your cpu and setup).

> Anders
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