Linux in the park 2009

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 12:42:02PM -0400, William Muriithi wrote:
> I do not think you need a laptop. And as of your battery being crap,
> is there a laptop out there that last longer than that except Macs and
> think pads? I think its almost accepted that those batteries are just
> UPS, to keep the system up when there is a short outage and that's
> petty much it.

Well I can get about 2.5 hours out of my thinkpad (with a 6 cell not a
9 cell) under linux.

Amazingly a two line patch to kdebase-runtime reduced my power consumption
by 2.5W, which is about 15%.  I really should go pester them to make
that permanent.

powertop is a nifty toy to play with and figure out what is doing what
on your laptop.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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