Re: Eee PC 900 vs 901, from the NetBSD user point of view

[Paul de Weerd <weerd%weirdnet.nl@localhost>]

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 02:59:51PM +0000, Dennis den Brok wrote:
| Joel CARNAT <joel%carnat.net@localhost> schrieb:
| > Dealing with CPU speed and battery life, I guess the CPU (Celeron-M) can
| > be software slowed down. I read that you can use the 701 battery with the
| > 900, and also found 6-cells battery for the 900.
| 
| I'm quite sure that Celerons don't support SpeedStep.

After some searching I found a celeron I have running another *BSD :

cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.40GHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 2.41 GHz

Yet :

hw.cpuspeed=288

I'm not sure if it's called SpeedStep, but the Celeron (at least some,
maybe most or even all, models) certainly supports running at
different speeds. I'm not sure about powersavings, but noise level is
certainly improved quite drastically by running at 288MHz and not
2.4GHz.

Cheers,

Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd

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