Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 13:31:40 -0400 From: "Sean Cavanaugh" <Millenia2000@hotmail.com> To: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, "Gabor Kovesdan" <gabor@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD Message-ID: <BAY126-DS360C373365E30C34D8157CA570@phx.gbl> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905231808430.25076@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <4A17FFAF.4010400@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905231808430.25076@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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-------------------------------------------------- From: "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:09 PM To: "Gabor Kovesdan" <gabor@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD >> >> I'm about to buy a netbook, which: >> - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) >> - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) >> - has a normal HDD not an SSD > > point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in > order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W, excluding those really > "mobile". so >4 hours on battery&HDD seems possible. > I respectfully disagree. As much as I hate Apple as a company, I currently have a MacBook Pro that gets over 4 hours of battery life and has a 200+gig HDD in it.
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