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

[Igor V. Rafienko]

on Apr 4, 2006, 21:09, Jiang Qian wrote:

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> Just curious, what's your T43's hardware?


It's a 2669-based model.


> when you're drawing 14w, do you have wifi on? What screen brightness you 
> set?


14W is with everything off (wifi, bt, brightness on minimum, gfx card in 
lowerst power consumption mode, CPU at the lowest clock rate and 
"light" business load (emacs + ssh) and so on).


> 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.


That sounds about right.


> Still curious about how you achieve your consumption. Do you undervolt?


Yes, but undervoldting does not make that much of a difference.


> my T43: 1.86GHz, 1G ram, ati X300 64MB.


2Ghz here, but otherwise the same.





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