Recommended laptops for FreeBSD 6.x ...

Eric Anderson anderson at freebsd.org
Mon May 14 15:50:05 UTC 2007


On 05/14/07 10:07, Tom Evans wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:17 +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote:
>> That's alright, but I don't think we are going to look for single core
>> cpu anymore these days, maybe just for tabletpc to save power?
>>
> 
> If your primary concern is as a road warrior, then battery life might
> appeal to you more than a 40% reduction in 'make buildworld'.
> 
> Personally I love my dual core lappy, but I use battery power about 10%
> of the time, and always under 1 hour.


Note that a Core 2 Duo processor may use noticeably less power than a 
single core <something else>.


Eric



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