Re: [Fwd: Re: here i come !]

[Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>]

<quote who="Bruce Robert Pocock">

> Just for my curiosity, what kind of diff. are you noticing? EG: my iBook
> gets ~3h45m battery life with ext3 and moderately heavy use (say,
> compiling GNOME from Garnome) under Linux

Compiling means you're keeping the hard drive spun up, so this is not a good
benchmark. When you're on a plane, you want the hard drive to spin up very
rarely so that your batteries last for ages. With regular syncs, your
machine has to either keep the drive spinning, or bring it back up from
sleep.

- Jeff

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