[Laptop] Battery Time

2007-11-29 Thread Jessica Mahoney
Thinking about this for a while, I decided to post it. May not be much, but it is something. In July 2007 I acquired a brand new Compaq Presario V6000Z laptop. It came with the "High Capacity 6-Cell Battery" (6,000 mAh battery), an AMD Turion 64 X2 @ 1.8GHz, and I also got the "Imprint Finis

Re: [Laptop] Battery Time

2007-11-29 Thread Jessica Mahoney
in advance. On 11/29/07, *Jessica Mahoney* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: Thinking about this for a while, I decided to post it. May not be much, but it is something. In July 2007 I acquired a brand new Compaq Presario V6000Z laptop. It

Re: [Laptop] Battery Time

2007-12-01 Thread Jessica Mahoney
Darren Pilgrim wrote: Jessica Mahoney wrote: Quick recap: Windows Vista: 2 minute boot, 90 minutes of battery What tuning did you do on Vista prior to your measurements? A stock Vista install never actually goes idle, so it eats the battery life. With FreeBSD if you run X with an alpha

Re: Current Gentoo user

2007-12-13 Thread Jessica Mahoney
Grant wrote: It has recently come to my attention that FreeBSD is "similar" to Gentoo Linux. I've been a Gentoo user for about 5 years and I love the concept, but it feels like the project is slowing down. I like to learn/use/know one OS for server, media system, laptop, router, etc. How would