[ltp] [ANN] tp_smapi 0.19 adds dates, improves stability

[François Fleuret]

Dear David,

<David A. Desrosiers> wrote on 08 Apr 2006 18:22:43 MET:

>  	The saleman that configured and sold the laptop to me said
> that the 6-cell battery wasn't even an available option, because it
> would only provide me with 30 minutes of battery life. He said if I
> wanted to do a single cross-country flight with this laptop powered
> the whole time, I would need _at least_ 2 of the 9-cell batteries,
> so that is what I bought.
>
>  	And he was right. 2 fully-charged 9-cell batteries _just_ gets
> me from the East Coast of the US to the West Coast, just doing mail
> and other random, non-cpu-intensive tasks.

I have a T41p with Debian, not special tuning except cpufreqd to run
it a 600mhz when low cpu usage (being on battery or not), and with a 6
cell battery I have almost 3h autonomy, even on a battery I use almost
every week's day (I have 40min commute time by train) and I bought 3
month ago.

Thus, IMHO something is wrong with your Thinkpad. Now, how the
salesman knew that ?

Cheers,

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François Fleuret                          http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~fleuret