Zan Lynx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I had thought about getting a 7,200 RPM drive replacement myself, but | someone told me it would give it much less battery life. I know the | R3000s aren't super portables, but I do manage to get a couple of hours | out of mine, generally enough to be useful in airports and such. | | Have you noticed a big drop in run time on battery using a 7K drive?
The flip side of battery use is heat generation. Heat inside notebooks is a big problem. The notebook might not be designed to get rid of the greater heat generated by such a disk. I don't know how to figure that out. Even if it is, the fan would be running more -- potentially annoying. Summary: somebody (other than me) should try this and report back :-) _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
