>From my subjective own experience, it don't, the only thing I don't activate when my laptop is plugged is the mouse switch since it instructs the system to turnoff the USB port whenever there's no activity on it and that can be very annoying, believe me xD Combining Powertop 2 with Liquorix kernel, Ulatencyd, e4rat, preload and some more fancy tweakes here and there -sysctl.conf, grub kernel line, etc.- I have a feather-light, lightspeed KDE SC full suite with every eye candy effect on and the best part is my notebook -Pavilion dv7-4287cl- reminds _cool_ all the time. -- -msx