Hey all,
I have a brand new 1 week old Dell Latitude D600.
It is dual booting XP Pro and Redhat Linux 9.
I can truly tell when it's on batteries that it slows way down. I don't like that. I'd rather turn off how the Pentium M shuts down all the stuff it wants to save power.
I had a Celeron 1.8GHz Toshiba that seemed much faster
When this laptop is on power (not batteries) it is FAST. Very Fast. I want it to be like that all the time. I don't care if my battery life goes to crap. I only use it for about an hour at a time anyway
Any suggestions? In the BIOS it says that if you turn speedstep off that it will run at 600MHz all the time. Is this correct? It's weird....
I love the laptop..........but I want the power all the time
Please help if you can.
Thanks!
You know...it's funny. It seems that Microsoft and Intel just keep designing stuff that gets in your way and makes you search for ways to turn stuff off or disable it.
It looks like I'll have to simply Buy AMD, buy my own parts.....build it....and run Linux forever