>
>Keep in mind that if you have VM on, the hard drive is not allowed to spin
>down. If you turn VM off, and you aren't doing anything that accesses the
>drive, the drive can spin down and battery life will go up considerably.
>Usually the two biggest keys to making a PowerBook last a long time on the
>road are reducing the display brightness to one step above off and letting
>the HD spin down as much as possible.
I have VM turned on and my HD spins down normally. If you have many
apps open and you switch between them, causing a page of memory to be
requested the drive will spin up before you can do anything, but it
will most definitely spin down with VM on!
Most peoples arguments against using VM stem from things that they
learned, either by word of mouth, or bad experience, during the 7.5
range of systems. THese had a number of issues involved with VM. from
7.6 on VM has been VERY reliable and fast and not causing a speed hit
at all unless you have to use it. I have a digital recording package
that requires me to turn VM off in order to use it, and I can say
that for the rest of the programs on my machine, it's MORE reliable
and stable with VM on!
James Sentman http://www.sentman.com/
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