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Subject: Re: Fighting for the power.
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On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 02:13 +0300, Alexander Motin wrote:
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> 
> What's about general effect, the main idea here is the same as in audio 
> processing: result mostly depends on quality of the worst component. 
> Your system may just have some other consumers which I don't have. For 
> example, desktop CPU instead of mobile, desktop chipset instead of 
> mobile, powerful external video instead of (or even in addition to) 
> built-in, and so on.
> 

Interesting point. Is there a power consumption benchmark for evaluating
hardware for use with FreeBSD?

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