[ltp] Battery health t42p 9cell 6800mah

[Marc MERLIN]

On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 11:29:58AM +0100, Steffen Dreise wrote:
> Hi there, anyone out there with an similar battery?
> I got this 9cell bat and after 3 hours, its empty. Is this normal?

Yes, it's normal, that's what you get without advanced power management.

If you use CPU throttling, take the LCD brightness down, turn off the
wireless and all that fun stuff, you can get a little more than 4H (almost
5H if you manage to keep the hard drive off the whole time)

Marc
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