From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 23 17:43:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 349DD106564A; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:43:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from millenia2000@hotmail.com) Received: from bay0-omc2-s19.bay0.hotmail.com (bay0-omc2-s19.bay0.hotmail.com [65.54.246.155]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8B9A8FC15; Sat, 23 May 2009 17:43:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from millenia2000@hotmail.com) Received: from BAY126-DS3 ([65.55.131.30]) by bay0-omc2-s19.bay0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.3959); Sat, 23 May 2009 10:31:48 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [69.243.68.197] X-Originating-Email: [millenia2000@hotmail.com] Message-ID: From: "Sean Cavanaugh" To: "Wojciech Puchar" , "Gabor Kovesdan" References: <4A17FFAF.4010400@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 13:31:40 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8064.206 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8064.206 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 May 2009 17:31:48.0031 (UTC) FILETIME=[59A114F0:01C9DBCC] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 May 2009 17:43:49 -0000 -------------------------------------------------- From: "Wojciech Puchar" Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:09 PM To: "Gabor Kovesdan" Cc: ; 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.