Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?
> > agreed, it seems I will get about 3 and a half to four hours with out taking
> > any precautions, still it would be nice to be able to get over 5 hours like
> > macos allegedly (so claimed in apple advertiisng and such) can on the machine.
>
> if you read the fine print on such advertising you will see that you
> must smoke a crack pipe for at least an hour before testing this. (so
> that your perception of time is suffiently altered as to make it
> appear true.)
Plus power management on Intel boxes benefits from available
documentation, whereas power management support on PowerMacs is not helped
by Apple's ass-backwards attitude on hardware documentation. There's room
for improvement, sure. Reverse engineer some MacOS drivers and implement
their tricks in the kernel.
Michael
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