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Originally Posted by konttori View Post
CPU itself has really only some effect on the total use-time. Display eats most of the power, cellmo is eating a lot with network traffic. Having higher speeds usually allows cpu to go back to idle sooner, so, indeed, it might even prolong the battery life if you overclock the CPU. Having said that, I don't especially suggest anybody to do it. I can only say that I have seen it running at 650, so within the suggested 10%.
Igor was very clear at the Summit about not pegging the CPU at 550MHz+ if you don't want to fry it.

Race-to-idle will only be effective in increasing battery life if the only CPU usage they're getting is in short bursts. Any prolonged low-level usage will quickly eat up battery at 600MHz (music playback where things would happily run at 250MHz is a good example).

Either way, I'd say not making yourself a $600 brick is top priority here.
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