Liliputing » power management http://liliputing.com Compact Computing Sat, 26 May 2012 13:58:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Ubuntu 12.04 could offer better battery life http://liliputing.com/2011/12/ubuntu-12-04-could-offer-better-battery-life.html http://liliputing.com/2011/12/ubuntu-12-04-could-offer-better-battery-life.html#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:25:04 +0000 Brad Linder http://liliputing.com/?p=40481 Ubuntu PowerPopular Linux distribution Ubuntu is known for a lot of things -- but long battery life is not one of them. Users that have installed Ubuntu on notebook computers that had previously run Windows or another operating system have been complaining for years that their battery life drops after installing Ubuntu. Now Ubuntu engineer Colin King says he's taking a...

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]]> http://liliputing.com/2011/12/ubuntu-12-04-could-offer-better-battery-life.html/feed 5 Jupiter power management applet for Linux netbooks http://liliputing.com/2010/02/jupiter-power-management-applet-for-linux-netbooks.html http://liliputing.com/2010/02/jupiter-power-management-applet-for-linux-netbooks.html#comments Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:34:13 +0000 Brad Linder http://www.liliputing.com/?p=19322 The Intel Atom chips found in most netbooks include some nifty power management features that makes it easy to overclock or underclock the CPU depending on whether you want to prioritize performance or long battery life. Asus and a handful of other PC makers make it incredibly easy to toggle between high performance and power saving modes with software such...

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]]> http://liliputing.com/2010/02/jupiter-power-management-applet-for-linux-netbooks.html/feed 6 OS X 10.5.7 reportedly improves hackintosh netbook battery life http://liliputing.com/2009/05/os-x-1057-reportedly-improves-hackintosh-netbook-battery-life.html http://liliputing.com/2009/05/os-x-1057-reportedly-improves-hackintosh-netbook-battery-life.html#comments Thu, 14 May 2009 22:24:59 +0000 Brad Linder http://www.liliputing.com/?p=8561 Apple may not be releasing a netbook (or at least now one as we know it) anytime soon. But that doesn't mean the company isn't releasing software for netbooks. In what I can only guess is a happy accident, MSI Wind users who have installed hacked versions of OS X on their netbooks report that upgrading the operating system to...

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