[ltp] Excessive power draw on T61

[Tino Keitel]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:50:33 -0400, Mike Kershaw wrote:
> I've been trying to figure out what is causing high power consumption on
> a T61 with nvidia card:  Idle, in console or X, it draws approximately

Have you compared the numbers with a running Windows? I've read that
Intel's new Santa Rosa platform that should be used in the T61 brings
more performance, but also more power consumption, so it was suggested
to avoid such hardware if the last bit of performance isn't really
required.

Regards,
Tino