Notebook Battery...

Sat Jul 23 05:29:15 UTC 2005

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Francois Ouellette wrote:

> I use a Thinkpad R31 with an oldish dual-speed P-III, when I use Win
> XPensive I can barely work 2.5 hours before getting the warnings that my
> machine will shutdown.
>
> When using Linux FC3 (without any meter) I can happily work 4+ hours even at
> full CPU speed with the disk spinning and a wireless card!
>
> So, do not believe everything the battery monitors say...

XP consumes much more power than Linux when idle.

Peter
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