In the 10 minutes I have had Conky installed I already learned something interesting.

When my N900 is plugged into the PC it only drops the CPU as low as 500Mhz, but on battery it drops as low as 250Mhz. So while on charge the N900 should be more responsive than on battery.

I know its perfectly logical, but all the more reason I am surprised its configured this way. I am not used to things configured to perform logically.

I also learned the load applet does not seem very accurate, possibly due to updating too slowly. Conky reported a few second spike of 50% CPU but load applet never budged from 1 box.

Incidentally, does the N900 power management have the ability to probe the power usage? I used to find it interesting watching the milliamps fluctuate on my Windows Slowbile phone.