On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 11:11:13PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 16:16, Michael Flaig wrote:
[...]
> Good, I just got mine today ;)
i wonder if you have all notebooks released by apple *g*
> > How long can you work with your powerbook on battery power?
>
> I haven't had it for long enough yet ;) I set it up so that it switches
> the CPU to 667Mhz when running on battery, it seem to have reasonable
> consumption, I suspect it can go up to 4 hours, maybe more if you are
> careful.
I expected more than 4 hrs. at medium display brightness ...
So I ask myself why to buy an 1Ghz if I get only get up to 4 hours on
battery if I switch back to 667 Mhz...
Do you know If there will be an Powerbook with bigger battery or an G4
with lower power consumption in the near future?
[...]
> No problem like that I know about. I'm not sure yet about that toasted
> ibook is really a linux issue btw. I suspect there may be a batch of
> faultly ibooks around... And so far, it really only ever happened on
> ibook 800s.
ok, thanks!
> The fan is variable speed. I often hear it at low speed when working on
> AC power (1Ghz), doing some 3D stuff or kernel compiles kicks it to
> full speed.
this would be OK!
Hey and I also want to thank you for your work on the powermac support
in the Linux Kernel!
Greets,
Michael
