Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 11:50:31 -0600 From: Phillip Gonzalez <email@phillipgonzalez.com> To: Jessica Mahoney <root@varusonline.com> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Laptop] Battery Time Message-ID: <4A8AB67E-B589-4768-A77B-72FAC77F3554@phillipgonzalez.com> In-Reply-To: <474E80CD.3020803@varusonline.com> References: <474E80CD.3020803@varusonline.com>
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That's what I'm talkin bout :-) -phil On Nov 29, 2007, at 3:05 AM, Jessica Mahoney wrote: > Thinking about this for a while, I decided to post it. May not be > much, but it is something. > > In July 2007 I acquired a brand new Compaq Presario V6000Z laptop. > It came with the "High Capacity 6-Cell Battery" (6,000 mAh > battery), an AMD Turion 64 X2 @ 1.8GHz, and I also got the "Imprint > Finish" so I could get the FireWire and additional USB ports. For > what it is, $1,000 wasn't that bad. > > It came with Windows Vista Home Basic. This system took about two > minutes to boot, and sucked the battery dry in 90 minutes, even > with all power-saving settings enabled (eeps!). > > Then I installed Linux on it. Linux had some serious stability > issues, and even with everything I did, it was never all that > stable, but it booted in about a minute. Linux did do better with > battery time, clocking 2 hours. True, that's not much better, but > still. > > Well, I've been using FreeBSD for my servers, and I have had a few > FreeBSD desktops off and on over the years, so I decided to give it > a shot. After installing FreeBSD and configuring the kernel/world, > and then installing some ports, I noticed something wildly > different, so different, that its freaking amazing. FreeBSD boots > in a mere fifteen seconds (kernel: 11s; services: 2s; gdm+Xorg: > instant; gnome-desktop: 2s). FreeBSD is just as amazing with > battery time, as I can now get not just two, but four hours of > battery time. Plus, its just as rock-solid-will-keep-running-until- > the-sun-blows-up stable as I remember from every other machine I've > used as a FreeBSD desktop. > > Quick recap: > Windows Vista: 2 minute boot, 90 minutes of battery > Linux: one minute boot, 120 minutes of battery > FreeBSD: 15 second boot, 240 minutes of battery > > FreeBSD is pure awesomeness, made of awesome and win, featuring > Power, Performance, Stability, and Reliability. I have also > learned (from my laptop) that FreeBSD is also a Green OS, as it > causes the hardware to use less power than other systems. > > > ~Jessica > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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