Thread: A faster N810??
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Originally Posted by qole View Post
Matan: I've seen a very mild battery life decrease. So mild that I'm not sure it exists. It isn't very significant, because I don't believe the CPU speed is a big determiner for battery life. If anything, a faster CPU should help "race to idle," no?
The default CPU throttling is designed to avoid situations where a task using very little CPU, but doing so very frequently, will constantly wake the CPU and drain the battery very rapidly. Because the CPU uses much less power while operating at 165MHz compared too 400MHz.

The flip side, of course, is that you'll get a delay while the CPU ramps up for more demanding tasks.

The proper choice depends a lot on how you use your tablet.

Originally Posted by qole View Post
In any event, you can set your processor back to on-demand, just by replacing the "performance" in the command line with "ondemand".
Or just reboot.
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