Run laptop batteries down to the end of the charge for the first month. Boot to a DOS diskette and turn off all power saving in the bios. Once this has been done several times your battery will hold a better charge and have a longer life. File system shouldn't have much of a effect on battery life. Lots of RAM will help, the machine will not have to hit swap as much. Sam. Ian Stoner wrote: >Is there any consensus on what filesystem is best to use on laptops? Is >the benefit of journaling worth the cost in battery life? How much >battery life does journaling actually cost? > >If anyone has general tips about how to squeeze more life out of >batteries, I'd be happy to hear them. > >Thanks, >Ian > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list