[CoLoCo] asus eee battery life

[David Overcash]

Hopes were that SSDs would use less power and have much faster seek times...
but they're finding out it's about the same in the long run I guess.

In some tests SSDs actually used more battery...

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Andrew <keen101 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-Details.asp?EdpNo=3747065&sku=D516-7001&SRCCODE=WEBGOOPCS&cm_mmc_o=7BBTkwCjC-p8ByplCjCabTwyKbywgfCjCmH4
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> I don't know much about it. Just that it comes with gOS.
>
>
> I also though SSD's were supposed to use less power, but it seems that
> these early models do not.
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 5:18 PM, Jim Hutchinson <jim at ubuntu-rocks.org>wrote:
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>> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:33 PM, Joey Stanford <joey at canonical.com>wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> > Only 3 hours?
>>>
>>> Yep.
>>>
>>> >  Is that with trying to get longer life or just running with
>>> > full screen brightness?
>>>
>>> I do the normal dimming and such so it's with power management turned
>>> on. SSD's gobble up power.
>>
>>
>> I thought the SSD was supposed to use less power than a spinning HD.
>> That's not good news to me.
>>
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