[ltp] Excessive power draw on T61

[Mike Kershaw]

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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:44:35PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:50:33 -0400, Mike Kershaw wrote:
> > I've been trying to figure out what is causing high power consumption on
> > a T61 with nvidia card:  Idle, in console or X, it draws approximately
>=20
> Have you compared the numbers with a running Windows? I've read that
> Intel's new Santa Rosa platform that should be used in the T61 brings
> more performance, but also more power consumption, so it was suggested
> to avoid such hardware if the last bit of performance isn't really
> required.

No, windows only stayed on it long enough to verify all the HW was
running at all, and then the ntfs resize went funny so I gave up even
pretending I'd care about dual-boot.

20W seems awfully high for a chipset rev (and one which runs
significantly cooler in idle than my T43), compared against a T60 and
it can get down to 9W idle.

-m

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