On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 09:22:44PM +0100, . wrote: > So now that GNOME 3.8 has "Classic Mode"[1] I'll see how loud my > notebook's fan gets, since from the picture it seems that it uses 3D > acceleration. 3D acceleration was always something which gets my (and my > friends') notebook fan very loud and decreases battery time. 3D for > desktop, at least for older notebooks, is unnecessary (I don't know if > >=Sandy Bridge notebook are louder too when using 3D). GNOME uses only the most basic features of a GPU. There is no reason that this would noticeably increase the power usage. I assume you're using the nouveau drivers. They lack the ability to control the fan, etc. If you'd use a recent Windows version on the same laptop you'd notice that with the same hardware and more graphical effects, the power usage will be better than GNOME 2.x. -- Regards, Olav _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
