sony vaio
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what i like about centrino is freq scaling in the processor.
i enabled it in my linux kernel (v. 2.6.10) and, whilst on battery my processor degrades in speed to boost battery life.
this works out nicely when i'm sitting in a coffee shop just checking email and working remotely in ssh on a server back at the office.
i can usually get about 3.5 hours out of my vaio...but, then again, i also made some changes which limit read/write to the harddrive to conserve power.
design apps will eat a notebook battery a live.
adobe cs will run sluggish after a while no matter what. our graphic designer here has a beast of a workstation and he still has to reboot once or so a day because cs starts slowing down.
i think there are memory/swap issues with adobe's software.