[ltp] Average Thinkpad T40 battery life

[Binary Xerroz]

Any! if you have multiple and get different times, list them both

but if your asking me, currently i have the standard battery
to reiterate:
ACPI C3: nearly 5 hours
ACPI C2: apx 3 hours
APM: apx 3 hours
Windows: nearly 4:30 - 5:00 hours

-Xerroz

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>From: Crispin Cowan <crispin@immunix.com>
>Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>Subject: Re: [ltp] Average Thinkpad T40 battery life
>Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 01:32:39 -0700
>
>Big battery, or small?
>
>Crispin
>
>Binary Xerroz wrote:
>
>>Using APM or ACPI what is your average battery life?
>>APM: 3 hours doing suring, wifi, etc
>>ACPI:
>>C3: doing nothing because no wifi; nearly 5 hours with dimmed
>>C2: same as APM (almost the exact same)
>>
>>I believe a problem in APM (atleast the Thinkpad APM bios) exists that 
>>runs the processor in an ACPI C2 equivilant. The reason i believe that 
>>this exists is due to a friend having a T40 (few months older) getting 
>>nearly 5 hours with APM!!!
>>
>>Anyway look forward to your responses.
>>
>>PS: do you think youll buy a Thinkpad again?
>>
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>>00110110 00100000 01000001 01110011 01110011
>>01100101 01101101 01100010 01101100 01100101
>>01110010 00100000 01000011 01101111 01100100
>>01100101 01110010 00001101 00001010 01000001
>>00100000 01011100 00100111 01010000 01110010
>>01101111 01100110 01100101 01110011 01110011
>>01101001 01101111 01101110 01100001 01101100
>>01011100 00100111 00000000 00000000 00000000
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