http://processorfinder.intel.com/details.aspx?sSpec=SLA4E

(has a kernel panic when booting from CD)
Any ideas?

ps. when posting comments it just shows a blank page as response – hope this gets through.

Have you heard from the Fedora guy if he has switched to Ubuntu 8 yet? I am also concerned about power management.

Currently I’m running Ubuntu 8.04 on Dell 1525. Everything seems good with the standard ubuntu 32 bit distribution. Hibernate and suspend work 99% of the time but I use the laptop on the train, and the battery life seems to be decreasing slightly every week. I’m still getting about 2 hours out of it though. And I am hibernating/resuming at least once per trip.

I had Ubuntu 7 on a previous laptop, and a I noticed the battery go down rapidly after switching from windows to ubuntu 7. After a couple of months, the battery was dead. Never really knew if it was ubuntu/linux or just the battery – it would have been close to 4 years old at the time.

If fedora 8 has better power management than ubuntu 8 then I think I’ll switch – I don’t need another dead battery! Maybe I’ll install both and give it a try.

continued…

I do need to go through powertop again, and check if the settings are still optimal.

I’ve also added some unecessary software to my ubuntu installation, so I should really reinstall (I wanted to try out KDE4 and gdesklets). Perhaps that is causing more battery drain.

Thanks for posting your experiences – I’ve been meaning to but haven’t had time yet.

I got around the posting a comment problem (blank response) – I think it didn’t like the link I had to powertop:

Here it is without the http
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerTOP