Haiku: BeOS Reborn

[David Sanders]

2009/9/24  <utisoft at googlemail.com>:
> On 23 Sep 2009 23:33, David Sanders <dsuzukisanders at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2009/9/24 Michael Haney thezorch at gmail.com>:
>>
>> > On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca>
>> > wrote:
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>> >> Michael Haney wrote:
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>> >>
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>> >>> Q- What is the Average Battery Life of a device like this? - Tyke
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>> >>>
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>> >>> Answer- The average battery life of a mini netbook style device is
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>> >>> usually around 4 hours approximatly.
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>> >>
>>
>> >> This was the one that amazed me. Surely the average battery life of a
>> >> device
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>> >> "like" this is much more than 4 hours.  I might as well lug around the
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>> >> laptop with a spare battery...
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>>
>>
>> Just as an incidentai note. My Dell Studio 1735 gets about 1 hour 40
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>> mins out of Ubuntu and about 1 hour out of minimally-jailbroken OSX
>>
>> Leopard. The power-management support seems to be working in Leopard,
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>> but it's definitely more CPU-bound for me when idle than either Ubu or
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>> Vista.
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>>
>>
>> It gets over 2 hours out of Vista (not as though I'd ever usually want
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>> to use Vista for that amount of time).
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>
> Do you think it's fair to compare battery life when running Mac OS X on a
> Dell, when it's not designed to expect anything like that hardware?
>
> Chris


Actually the hardware is very very similar to what's in the macbook,
right down to the same (intel) ACPI controller.

So, yes.