<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 3:34 PM, Adam Tauno Williams <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">> > I think some of the P4's consumed<br>
> > 125W. Maybe the special edition ones.<br>
> > But the clock speeds are high, and they<br>
> > eat power. At $125 one could use some<br>
> > of the savings to give to the power company...<br>
> The NetBurst architecture is pretty bad at a performance-per-watt basis.<br>
> However, the Atom architecture is no angel; While researching building<br>
> a carputer, I was warned away from Atom-based boards as they "ran too hot."<br>
<br>
</div>We have an Atom based netbook at work - about 2.5 hours batter life.<br>
My 17" laptop - about the same or better. I'm not impressed by the<br>
power claims of those things either [although in all likelihood I have a<br>
bigger battery]. But still not impressive; for what you sacrifice with<br>
a netbook I'd expect something like six to eight hours of battery life.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> But, again, if we're talking about simple file serving, your CPU demands<br>
> are going to be very, very low, and the power-consumed-while-idle is<br>
> extremely low for any x86 CPU designed after the Pentium (As in, the<br>
> thing that would have been called 80586 had Intel not lost their<br>
> trademark case against Cyrix), I think.<br>
<br>
</div>Yep, assuming you verify that power-saving features are enabled and<br>
working. Recent LINUX kernels/distros seem to do a decent job<br>
out-of-the-box but I'd still double check. Also there are lots of<br>
components other than the CPU & planar, most importantly the power<br>
supply or brick.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"></div></div></blockquote><div><br>Indeed. The low price HP netbook unit <br>has just RAM and flash. One might think<br>it would go all day on a battery charge.<br><br>And one would be wrong...<br>
<br> -- Bob<br> <br></div></div>