Spotlight's Impact on PowerBook Battery Life?

Viltvodlian Deoderan asks: "So, Spotlight for Mac OS X Tiger is very cool. I can now let my innate ability to disorganize things shine through. However, when using my PowerBook unplugged, it seems that my battery lasts a noticeably less time. A close reading of Ars Technica's description of how spotlight works suggests that this is due to keeping the index file up-to-date on disk. Has anyone else noticed the same thing? Does someone have a better explanation for why my battery seems to drain out, prematurely? Is there some way real-time indexing can be turned off to conserve power?"

Comments

Re:What do you consider an average load?

[cei]

Depending on the time of day and what you are doing with your computer, power consumption varies a lot.

Thank Bush that we'll have longer Daylight Saving Time next year so that our Powerbook batteries will last longer.

oh, come on...someone had to say it. B^]

Re:Umm..

[keith.gillum]

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Re:Umm..

[xiopher]

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