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Old 27th March 2013
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Originally Posted by clod View Post
How's battery life on the laptop? and what about the fan? On linux you probably know in order to keep it from spinning constantly at 1800rpm you need to use thinkfan.
In the only experiment I did, the battery lasted for 4 hours and 33 minutes.
The battery is a 9 months old 6-cell one.
Testing conditions: display at maximum brightness all the time, wireless connected continously, doing casual Net surfing activity and compiling software for about 30 minutes(therefore only 30+ minutes of heavy load).
Note: I estimate the system was idle for about 1 hour out of those 4.5 hours(screen saver went on), however the wireless was connected continously.

Regarding the fan, I don't know (yet) how to get informations about its status in NetBSD.
On short: the system is not over-heating when doing casual stuff, it heats when I compile big programs(using pkgsrc) and then I can hear the fan increasing its speed. All in all, heating is not an issue, I assume fan is working OK.
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