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Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, Gabor Kovesdan <gabor@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD
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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