[Klug-general] MiniPC to compete with eeePC

[MacGyveR]

On Thursday 31 Jan 2008, Andrew Miller (Spode) wrote:
> I think the Via suggestion is a valid one, and I couldn't agree more in
> terms of enthusiasm. Hardware has been getting less and less exciting
> over the past 3-4 years.
>
>  From memory, the difference in battery life was as much 100%, but when
> taking into account the lower clock speeds, and the fact they have used
> an ultra low voltage chip, the difference might not be as great.
> Certainly the chips would be cheaper as all the Pentium M's with dodgy
> L2 cache can just be stuck in the Celeron bin.
>
> Citing this article
> (http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/cpu/intel-thermal-features-pm.html),
>
> "It [Pentium M] lacks Enhanced Intel SpeedStep as well as Thermal
> Monitor 2. So, if you buy Celeron M, you *will not be able* to manage
> its performance states or power consumption, as well as to enable the
> effective overheating protection."
>
> More in the article itself.
>
> Spode
>

You can manage the cpu throttling on a celeron M using frequency scaling with 
the kernel's ACPI, there is also a KDE applet that will do all this for you 
if you like that sort of thing :-)

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