[ltp] short battery life on t40

[Steve Barr]

Jason 'T' Rolfe wrote:
> Hey.  My new T40 is only getting about 2 to 2.5 hours of battery life (as
> reported by apm), as oppposed to the expected 5. 

The only reports of 5 hours I have seen have been with the
T40p, which comes with the high-capacity battery (the one
that sticks out from the back of the unit).

http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=-840&langId=-1&partNumber=08K8197&storeId=1

And even then:
"Note this is when I'm doing only light-duty stuff.  (i.e.,
reading e-mail locally, using emacs --- not MS-Word, it burns
a huge amount of CPU which means a huge amount of power ---
other stuff that doesn't fire up the disk that often, etc.)
It's quite a different story if I'm doing kernel compiles."
-- Ted Ts'o

Steve
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