On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 11:59:41AM +0100, Ioannis Nousias wrote: > If there was a "huge increase in power consumption" then a MacBook's > battery would only last for an hour. A GPU is better in handling the GUI > than a CPU is, even with current graphics cards that do little about > power efficiency. On a modern graphs card the 2D and 3D parts of the chip are normally fed so that one or both can be power managed internally. Apple have simply chosen to design a system a particular way and ensured that the battery life is acceptable operating that way. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list