Laptop battery life extender

[David Gibbs <david@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Folks:

For those of us with Laptops, I've found a very handy utility that can
extended the power of batteries.

It's SpeedswitchXP at http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html

Basically, the utility applies much more aggressive throttling logic to
the CPU to lower the power consumption based on use.

On my Dell Inspiron 600m (2ghz) and two 6 cell batteries, I can get 8
hours of use.  The utility has lowered the clock speed on the system to
only 88mhz on a regular basis.

It's open source, although it hasn't been updated in a number of months.

david