[ltp] Why do you love your ThinkPad? Request for IBM!

[Alejandro Bonilla]

> >
> > Anyway, P4 is not there for me. I can get 6 hours in Linux
> of battery with
> > the T42 big battery and about 4.5 hours with the normal
> one. I don't think I
> > would be able to do this with a AMD64 or P4.
>
> I get only about 3.5 hours with my T42 (standard battery),
> even after I
> disable Bluetooth/WiFi and turn down the LCD brightness.  I use
> laptop-mode and powernowd (well, I use Ubuntu which has those things
> installed by default).  How do you get the extra hour?

I don't know. Mine is a 9cell and yours 6 Cell or I simply don't access the
HD that much.

.Alejandro

>
> By the way, I'm happy that I have an ATI card (Mobility M7 LW) in my
> laptop.  It gives me full 2D & 3D accel with standard open-source
> drivers, and no problems with suspend/resume (other than too
> high power
> usage).
>
> Marius Gedminas