> Power Management on x2? > --Bob Sun's developers continue to amaze me in a big way. A few months ago, the system would get so hot that you couldn't run Solaris/X86 on a laptop w/o also installing Casper's frkit script. With Build 56 on a Turion64 (HP ze2000e), my wattage meter reads 17~18W at idle, slightly lower than running either SuSE or WinXP. And this was w/o frkit. (It will be a while b/f I tried Build 56+ on an x2 laptop, though.)
I also had a lot of problems with the slow video (ATI cards) on Solaris, especially when the web page contains a lot of flash images. Moving from single core to dual core ameliorated a little bit but I have resorted to always using a flashblock add-in to avoid annoyances. With Build 56 I am now unafraid to open any web page. I know people will probably think that I used to sell snake oil for my alma mater Exxon (now ExxonMobil), but the improvements are every bit real, and stunning. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
