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If I were to do this to increase to 900MHz would it create a shorter battery time or create more heat in the netbook. Sounds like something I might like to try to get more speed.




It would very likely do both those undesirable things. But in practice, good effects may outweigh the bad. You may not be able to speed up anyway; evidently only "early models" were underclocked at the factory. I now expect that would not include the 10-inch machines, which came last. If yours is up-clockable in the BIOS, I'd give it a try and see if the bad effects are all that bad. (I have read that the screen gets brighter, too, when speed is set higher. Probably the whole system's voltage is increased a little.) But it's probably not possible.

Some better news: The 900 Celeron Mobile was apparently a more efficient processor than this Atom thing. Atoms -- it says here -- use less power, but they achieve equivalent performance only by using a faster clock speed. So the Celeron is not actually a handicap, in spite of lower MHz.

Mind you, I still know only what I read. Asking some direct questions in the Eee Forum might help more. Those people get right into these things. Their daring modifications to the computers are fun to see.

Larry
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