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Date:      Sat, 23 May 2009 22:40:35 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
To:        Sean Cavanaugh <Millenia2000@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905232239440.27154@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
In-Reply-To: <BAY126-DS360C373365E30C34D8157CA570@phx.gbl>
References:  <4A17FFAF.4010400@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0905231808430.25076@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <BAY126-DS360C373365E30C34D8157CA570@phx.gbl>

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>> 
>> 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. 
>
i wrote "somehow incompatible" :)

your macbook pro would run even more hours on the same battery with flash 
drive.
i don't know how much your CPU gets power, and ... how oversized battery 
it has



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