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Not to mention the move to portable electronics. Having SETI@home running may make only a minor difference in performance on a desktop, but that's precious batt
by faitswulff 11y ago
Not to mention the move to portable electronics. Having SETI@home running may make only a minor difference in performance on a desktop, but that's precious battery life for a laptop user.
- wolfgke 11y agoI mostly run my laptop on the power grid and many other people, too. So your argument only makes sense for people that run their laptop mostly on battery The much worse problem is that many laptops have non-decent cooling - so if you really put them under hard workload for a longer time, you will at least hear that by the loud annoying fan or the processor will reduce its clock frequency making the laptop slower.
- sitkack 11y agoI am not sure if the current boinc clients do this but to gain more users they could * run only while connected to wall power * run while battery is 80% charged or higher (don't compete with a 0% charged battery) * don't spin the fan (meaning throttle back and don't make the user's machine sound like a jet engine)