> So far, incidentally, the battery has never died before the
> magic meter
> indicates it should. Also, the system has an additional 128MB
> of memory
> installed (for a total of 192MB); without this -- an
> additional 3 watts,
> if I remember correctly -- I could expect longer battery life than I'm
> getting.

Or not. If the system uses any kind of disk-based virtual memory, and you
run it in a configuration where 64MB is not adequate (which, these days,
almost means nothing more than that you have it turned on), the lower-memory
system would have worse, not better, battery life.



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