Powerbook + MorphOS ..battery life?
  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    TheMagicM
    Posts: 1220 from 2003/6/17
    Just curious to see how long your laptops can run on battery power under MorphOS.

    Any built-in wifi support? (instead of having to use a dongle)
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    geit
    Posts: 1049 from 2004/9/23
    Quote:

    TheMagicM wrote:
    Just curious to see how long your laptops can run on battery power under MorphOS.

    Any built-in wifi support? (instead of having to use a dongle)


    In my experience lasts much longer than with OSX. I guess the reason is that OSX is continously writing and reading the hibernation file, while MorphOS just uses the memory once an application is running. Also the base cpu/gpu load of MorphOS is quite low.

    My 14" iBook G4 1,33Ghz, with 1.25GB Memory and an 160GB harddrive runs around 3.5 hours with a battery from 2008/9. When I first tried MorphOS it was possible to use it for more than 5 hours, but this of course depends on display brightness, cpu/gpu load and connected hardware (SSD,memory size, external mouse, external wifi bridge, internal pcmcia network interface).

    There is no internal wifi yet, you have to use a pcmcia interface or (no choice on iBooks) an usb driven ethernet->wifi bridge.

    Geit

    [ Edited by geit 16.12.2013 - 12:43 ]
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    Andreas_Wolf
    Posts: 12163 from 2003/5/22
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    > Any built-in wifi support?

    "The plan is to have also Airport wifi supported in the Apple notebooks, sooner or later"
    https://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?topic_id=9691&forum=3&start=9
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    TheMagicM
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    thank you for the replies!

    :-)
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    I get three to four hours (occasionally more) on my 1.42 iBook (uses a very similar battery), less if I play DVDs.

    And a lot of people, my WiFi is external.
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