Re: Centrino question

Len Brown
2004-05-23T03:24:10Z

On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 20:56, Cyril Wattebled wrote:
> On Fri, 21 May 2004 19:42:58
> "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
>
> > How did you run windows ?
> Well, the first thing to say is that, on Windows, when the laptop is unplugged,
> the processor slows down to 200 mhz instead of 600 mhz when plugged. That
> says a lot of heat and, I guess power. When I say up to 6h, I mean when the
> laptop is idle of course.
>
> > How did you run Linux?
>
> Same here, I tried to let it idle and it hold 2h30 ..

Linux slows the processor to 600MHz when Windows gets down to 200MHz?

How about the display -- is the brightness comparable on Linux vs
Windows?

thanks,
-Len