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Date:      Sat, 1 Jan 2005 19:27:49 -0500
From:      Parv <parv@pair.com>
To:        Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
Cc:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Buying a laptop. (HP, Compaq, or Gateway)
Message-ID:  <20050102002749.GA830@holestein.holy.cow>
In-Reply-To: <41D6F77A.1030905@ultra-secure.de>
References:  <41D5911A.6080403@acm.org> <41D60825.3000802@pacific.net.sg> <41D6F77A.1030905@ultra-secure.de>

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in message <41D6F77A.1030905@ultra-secure.de>,
wrote Rainer Duffner thusly...
>
> >FreeBSD is not as good as Windows in a single point: power
> >consumption.
> 
> It's even worse than Linux (SuSE 9.2). At least on my
            ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
            ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
> Fujitsu-Siemens E8010.

First i thought FreeBSD is worse than SuSe in power management.


> But SuSE totally drops the ball in the ACPI-departement. ...

Reading rest of the paragraph shows that you meant to say that SuSe
is actually worse (in comparison to FreeBSD or Windows).


  - Parv

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