[ltp] Lower power consumption with upcoming 2.6.33

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:56:50 +0100


Hi folks,

I just tested 2.6.33-rc5 (actually, 2.6.33-rc5 with TuxOnIce changes)
on my X61s, and power consumption with an idle desktop (and turned off
pretty much everything, LCD dimmed) dropped from 8,6W to 7,3W.  This
would make nearly 10 hours of battery runtime.  :-)

Regards,
Tino