Hi, On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 12:37:59PM -0500, Kelly Price wrote: > Unfortunately, the CPU is working against you, and it's not a case of > underclocking that will help. The Turino 64 X2, the TL-52, is built > on a 90nm process. Most of the 35W power draw it uses is turned into > heat. There's not much the software can do when your chip's an oven.
Hmm, I thought idle draw _increased_ with process size getting smaller? But perhaps I got this backwards... > That said, your laptop is nearly three years old. Consumer Reports > says to replace laptops every two years. This may be a good time to > look into a new laptop that's using 45nm or 32 nm process chips (like > most Intel Core 2's or i-series) Verdict: they're nuts. (or being heavily press-sponsored by the crowd of usual Windoze mainstream "forced hardware upgrade treadmill" suspects) Andreas Mohr P.S.: of course my notebook isn't less than 2 years old... _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
