Tonight, I had some spare time, and decided to run a memtest on the Cloudbook, to see if a bad module was the source of the problems with the machine. So I plug in the external drive, fire up a Linux CD, and select memtest, specifically Memtest86 v2.01.
It lists the CPU as a 600MHz. Okay. THAT was unexpected. It's a VIA C7-M, and it lists as a 1.2G. I found a posting by a guy who clearly knows his stuff about Linux and found a way to use e_powersaver (he says he uses his Cloudbook to crack WEP's) to get it running at full speed. He also claims far more battery life and a negligible increase in temperatures, which I guess figures, since the CPU is being used the way it was designed to. But that's the answer. I thought, from the way programs were running and such, that the machine was not running at 1.2G. Now, I know it's not. Even if I thought I was misreading the screen for Memtest86 (I couldn't find 1.2G mentioned anywhere on the display), here's a bunch of people talking about how great their Cloudbooks are now that they've unlocked them. Like they say, this explains a lot. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
