On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 05:28, Dan Christensen wrote: > I just got a Dell with a 5400 rpm drive, and a 2.0 GHz cpu. I was > quite worried that these would cause my battery life to be horrible. > Well, I haven't done a careful test, but apm estimates that I'll get > a bit over 3 hours on one battery, which is not too bad. (On battery > power the cpu runs as 1.2 GHz.)
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