Battery life with a Celeron M

[Mike01]

Hi all,

I just picked up a cheap Celeron M notebook for my wife and was pleasantly surprised that the Celeron M is almost identical in performance to a Pentium M in everything except battery life (same chip, half the cache - 1MB, and no dynamic clock). I wasn't even aware of the distinciton between the Celeron M and the Mobile Celeron

That said...is there any way to cheat that no dynamic clock thing? I tried RMClock but all it can do is throttle it. I'm not even sure what that does...it's still running at max clock, so what is it throttling?

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[Hacp]

Nope there is no way to cheat it . You can probably undervolt it a little, but it won't undervolt as much as a PM because it can't lower its clock speeds.

 

[fbrdphreak]

Nope, no EIST on C-M's.

 

[Mike01]

Well, thanks anyway.

It's a hell of a deal, though. Same performance, a tad less battery life, a lot less money, and it's so small and light compared to my A64 brick.

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, there is really no way around that with the Celeron-M. The lack of speed step and power savings features is really it's only disadvantage compared to a pentium-m.