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China has just switched all its military operations (Server and desktops) on a variant of FreeBSD called Kylin (not sure you'll be able to open this link from outside China, anyway...)

Let's throw the display out:

Beagle Board: Max power consumption @ 2W

http://www.h-online.com/news/TI-launches-the-open-source-Beagle-Board-for-Lb75--/111204

Atom with Chipset: TDP @ 11W

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silverthorne_(CPU)

Also, the number of cells just determines the voltage, not the capacity. Size matters. So I don't think comparing 2 cells to 3 cells means much. So no, it's not clear that the HP is using only 50% more power.

My n800 with an ARM at 400 mhz runs a full browser, plays mpeg4 (dsp) video and doesn't burn my lap (or hands). So I imagine a laptop with a much larger battery than my n800 and a faster, but still power efficient processer (cortex-A8) would run nicely and last a very long time (10 hours +).

Nor does it fix anything when you have a critical vulnerability in the operating system... http://www.h-online.com/news/Root-exploit-for-Mac-OS-X--/110968

We use the MIME type of the file which is determined by sniffing the content.

When IE does it, the press calls it risky. Besides, you don't always sniff the content: this page describes MIME information files and the glob element in the shared-mime-info namespace, both of which go based on (yup) extensions. And this page on file sniffers appears not to describe how to handle files that are identified by a string of bytes at the end, rather than at the beginning.

And what happens when an app creates a file type that your sniffer doesn't know about? I looked at what it takes to register a new application, and it appears that Windows and Mac OS (even since Mac OS 1) do a lot of these things automatically by sniffing the executable.