Milo, Re: "Intel cannot run at max Clock rate on Battery. And this is better than AMD's PowerNow which can run at max clock rate on battery?"
If you are going to argue something, you might want to try getting your facts straight.
First of all, Intel's SpeedStep can be enabled or disabled when on batteries, and the newer version supports dynamic switching like AMD's PowerNow. Additionally, while it only supports 2 discrete voltage levels, Intel's power technique is in many ways more efficient than AMD's. The reason is that if you cut the latency with each voltage switch, you can get all the performance and battery savings you need with only 2 states. AMD's PowerNow has to continually waste CPU cycles switching to different voltage levels when all 32 levels are enabled. So, in order to get better performance, most laptop manufacturers only enable 4 discrete levels in the BIOS, not all 32. But since there is still more latency in PowerNow than there is with SpeedStep, AMD's approach is even less efficient.
Re: "Pull it out!"
Are you speaking to me, or your friend Jerry Sanders?
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