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    Chrome OS as a Battery Life Extender

    Discussion in 'HP' started by zeem, Jul 11, 2010.

  1. zeem

    zeem Notebook Consultant

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    Chrome OS has become stable enough now to to work pretty well on a laptop. It's super low on cpu and ram consumption so I figured it could very easily add a few hours of battery life to any notebook. Perhaps even doubling!

    Chromium OS builds by Hexxeh
    You can download it here and load it to a USB, and if it works well for you, set up dual booting here: multiboot [Chromium OS builds by Hexxeh]

    Would love to see some stats on how much battery life increases! I would try on mine, but the battery is dead.

    Enjoy!
     
    zeem, Jul 11, 2010
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    notebooko Notebook Consultant

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    notebooko, Jul 15, 2010
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    lifesaflaw123 Notebook Geek

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    Surprisingly OS's like chromium and Netbook Ubuntu decrease battery life. this is primarily due to driver issues and what not.
     
    lifesaflaw123, Jul 15, 2010
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  4. zeem

    zeem Notebook Consultant

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    That guy tested it in it's very early stages.

    All my hardware worked, including a usb mouse. It ran very zippy. Like a SSD was in my computer. faster than chrome ever has for me.

    As far as battery life? I don't know. Driver issues would definitely make the life shorter, but I'd still like to see some tests for these newer versions.
     
    zeem, Jul 15, 2010
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  5. IIIM3

    IIIM3 Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    Can you post some benchmarks? Like battery life while browsing web on Chrome vs. Windows etc?
     
    IIIM3, Jul 15, 2010
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    moviemarketing Milk Drinker

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    Does Chrome OS allow you to use gmail for corporate/pop mail without having "mailed by gmail.com" or "on behalf of" markers in the email header?
     
    moviemarketing, Jul 15, 2010
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