Intel recently released its PowerTOP utility, which builds on work done by kernel developers to make the Linux kernel power-efficient. PowerTOP gives a snapshot of what apps are consuming the most power. The PowerTOP website also hosts patches for several Linux apps and the kernel. In the Linux.com article, lead PowerTOP developer Arjan van de Ven of Intel says that PowerTOP could soon show which applications keep the disk busy.

Source: http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/05/16/1742204

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Gateway will be one of the first to use a low-watt version of Intel’s Core 2 Duo architecture in one of its ultramobile laptops.

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