[ltp] Aggressive battery diagnostics on T42p, should I return these?

[Jiang Qian]

> Although 7.5hours sounds nearly fantastic to me, 5 hours should be 
> easily attainable given certain adjustments. I can make my T43 draw a 
> bit below 14W, and with a 77Wh battery pack (9-cell, standard edition) 
> that is 5+ hours on full charge. My understanding was that PCI-e draws 
> more power than PCI, so a T42 should be able to hold out measurably 
> longer.
Just curious, what's your T43's hardware? when you're drawing 14w, do 
you have wifi on? What screen brightness you set? I set wifi on, screen 
to brightest(but already dimmed by bios setting from its AC brightness), 
HDD stopped, fan stopped and not using anything, I get 17.2W, but if I 
turn off wifi and dim the brightness to the lowest I *may* be able to 
get it to 14w. Still curious about how you achieve your consumption. Do 
you undervolt?
my T43: 1.86GHz, 1G ram, ati X300 64MB.
Jiang
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