On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 11:10 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > On Friday 31 December 2004 20:51, Mark M wrote: > > > > 1. What gotachas are there? eg. I have found out about a partition you > > should keep intact for hibernation mode. Is this OS independant? Or > > only for MSwindows? Is there anything else I really need to know (of > > course I will be installing debian on it). > > Yes, it's only for Windows, but it's also machine dependent. Some machines > don't use them.
Hm, I always thought Windows uses hibernation files... In any case, the hibernation partition might be needed by to BIOS to do a supend to disk. The older pre-ACPI phoenix BIOS did this for example. But if you buy a new laptop, it will most likely have ACPI (where suspend to disk is managed by the OS rather the BIOS). > > > > 3. Battery life: I am hoping to use the laptop for 2 things: 1. video > > editing/dvd burning from camera with firewire. 2. Using on longdistance > > flights (but not video editing). I guess for video/burning dvd's I want > > a fast processor eg the pentium M 3GHz. But for extended battery life I > > want a slower low power processor. > > No, you want a powerbook. PPCs _look_ slower if you only look at the clock > frequency, but they run much cooler and, generally, faster than intels. Or a centrino (Pentium M). cheers, Hp. > > > > So my question is: can I improve battery life on say a 3GHz pentium M > > by slowing down the clockspeed in BIOS to say 1GHz or 500MHz? > > Yes. > -- > derek > -- Hanspeter Kunz Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Ph.D. Student Department of Information Technology Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Zurich Tel: +41.(0)44.63-54306 Andreasstrasse 15, Office 2.12 http://ailab.ch/people/hkunz CH-8050 Zurich, Switzerland Spamtraps: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Scintillation is not always identification for an auric substance.
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