Suggestions on notebook

[dsr at tao.merseine.nu (dsr at tao.merseine.nu)]

On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 09:24:38PM -0500, James R. Van Zandt wrote:
> 
> Bill Ricker wrote:
> >> would prefer longer battery life in exchange for high speed graphics.
> >
> >Well, Battery Life and Cutting Edge are definitely a tradeoff.
> 
> Speaking of battery life: I have a Dell X300 on which I can slow the
> clock speed by a factor of 2.  I would really like to be able to slow
> it by a factor of 10, or even 100.  A text editor in a virtual console
> should still be able to keep up with my typing.  Do any current
> machines allow for really low clock speeds?  Or for running with the
> display light off?

The HP dv1000 that I use supports dynamic clock frequencies down
to 187MHz and up to 1.7GHz. I've been using the Gnome applet
cpufreq to check what DVD playing mode is most efficient for
mplayer (surprisingly, SDL).

-dsr-