Laptop with a power-management processor and play games?

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Dio

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Then you want this.

http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html

Would have solved a problem I had on a train on Saturday (that playing UFO doesn't require anything remotely resembling max processor speed, but XP thinks it does, so the battery died in 2 hours instead of its usual 4).

XP can do many of the same things as well, but it's not clearly documented (so I didn't realise it could until after I got home). And this shows your CPU speed on the taskbar, which is a clear tech-head bonus :D

Extremely handy for emulators as well (there's no way a Pentium-M needs 1600MHz to emulate a Spectrum :D )
 
Well, emulating a C64 in single-cycle mode along with sound took pretty much all of my AMD K6-III back in the day. I haven't actually touched a C64 emulator since tho so I don't know how it runs on my current (or much less a recent) PC tho. Probably in the 1000+ FPS range on a high-end system. :D
 
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