[ltp] Excessive power draw on T61

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:40:14 +0200


On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:49:24 -0400, Mike Kershaw wrote:

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> 20W seems awfully high for a chipset rev (and one which runs
> significantly cooler in idle than my T43), compared against a T60 and
> it can get down to 9W idle.

I just read in the german computer magazine c't that a T61 with Intel
graphics consumed 11W, whereas a T61 with nVidia graphics consumed 20W.
Even the latter one stayed very cool during the test, though.

Regards,
Tino