[ltp] T60 battery

Carles Pina i Estany linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 27 Nov 2006 16:33:44 +0200


Hi!

On Nov/27/2006, Chris Schumann wrote:
> > From: "Laurent Gilson" <pumpkin@gmx.de>
> 
> > Put the other way round: 0.013125 W/MHz vs 0.0125 W/MHz. If 
> > the calulation takes X MHz (and the RAM is lighting fast or 
> > everything is in cache) 600 MHz is the way to go.
> 
> But that only covers the CPU.
> 
> RAM, display, hard drive, support chips and losses have a constant drain
> too, so that needs to be computed for total efficiency.

I agree. If while the CPU's are "computing" user is waiting and not
doing other task (that maybe is true, maybe not -it depends, of course
:-)   )

_very interesting thread_

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