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Old 06-16-2016, 05:58 PM   #46
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Originally Posted by Pyjam View Post
A waste of what?

Processors in Kindle devices have almost nothing to do in their life. Once every billion cycles, the human operator ask for a page turn. The rest of the time, they're asleep.
You want to keep the processor with nothing to do in order to have the longest possible battery life. Once it's busy indexing books, or calculating how many dots to put for a cover it's a waste of battery.
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