Comment Re:AMD64 (Score 2, Insightful) 379
I don't think there's any significant difference. Anyone know otherwise?
Well, on my Samsung R65 with an Intel Yonah-class chip (max at 1.6GHz) Gentoo outperforms Windows (XP) in pretty much everything - especially in battery life, but also in heat pro- (or rather re-)duction. With Win the fan is constantly spinning up and down and the poor thing is growing pretty hot. But I'm using very aggressive GPU (NVidia) and CPU-Scaling on the linux-side, so that might be the reason Linux does so much better.
But that's really no surprising result - fire up beryl on linux and see your battery going to hell (I'm losing up to half an hour). The GPU and Graphics memory increase clock cycles by factor four. Though LCD backlight is the most energy consuming device on a laptop, increased GPU and CPU performance can cut down your battery's life pretty hard. As Vista doesn't really care about resources it doesn't make for a good mobile system anyway as resources are pretty hard to find out there in the wireless world.
Well, on my Samsung R65 with an Intel Yonah-class chip (max at 1.6GHz) Gentoo outperforms Windows (XP) in pretty much everything - especially in battery life, but also in heat pro- (or rather re-)duction. With Win the fan is constantly spinning up and down and the poor thing is growing pretty hot. But I'm using very aggressive GPU (NVidia) and CPU-Scaling on the linux-side, so that might be the reason Linux does so much better.
But that's really no surprising result - fire up beryl on linux and see your battery going to hell (I'm losing up to half an hour). The GPU and Graphics memory increase clock cycles by factor four. Though LCD backlight is the most energy consuming device on a laptop, increased GPU and CPU performance can cut down your battery's life pretty hard. As Vista doesn't really care about resources it doesn't make for a good mobile system anyway as resources are pretty hard to find out there in the wireless world.
