Linux in the park 2009

[Darryl Moore]

I get at least 4 with my XO. :-)

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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.
> 
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