Mauro <mcepeda@ualberta.ca> writes: > sorry just a few typo corrections: > > So how advanced is the gnu-linux implementation of this considering that > I've NOT heard of an ibook or powerbook RUNNING GNU_LINUX coming close > to the 5/6 hours OS X claims (not that apple's claims are ENTIRELY > believable but still a lot better than my brother's pc laptop). I > haven't fiddled around much with the power saving settings on my ibook > with debian but I can tell you I get about 2 hours of use as is. This > is not impressive. Mauro, The Linux kernel driver does not implement this (instruction cache throttling) at all. Still, I get over four hours on battery on my 12" iBook G4 with 7447A CPU. Two hours sounds much too little; it is likely that you could improve that somehow. cheers, John
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