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[Mike Stanley]

On Sunday, December 15, 2002, at 05:30 PM, Kynan Shook wrote:

> On Behalf Of William Scammell writes:
>> A turbo button? ~On~ when you're plugged in, or whenever, ~off~ when
>> you're plugged out.
>
> Ick.  Reminds me too much of Wintel machines.  Personally, I'm not 
> sure I want a CPU that eats so much electricity that I can't run my 
> computer at full speed without being plugged in.  I'd much prefer it 
> as an option for energy saving, but not required.
>

Well, I don't think I'd turn down that feature just because Wintel 
machines use it.  My Dell Inspiron has the speedstep stuff and it works 
quite well.  Chances are any TiBook that implemented it (especially in 
the hypothetical "dual" situation) would be so fast even on battery 
power that it would be an easy tradeoff.  Still, I believe it is 
possible, on the Wintel machines anyway, to enable or disable that 
feature.

Still, if I had the choice between longer battery life or excess cpu 
power (that I personally wouldn't need while not plugged in - not sure 
about other people) I'd go for battery life.  Even now, with my TiBook 
667 I'd settle for it running at 400 or so unplugged if it gave me more 
battery life.