[ltp] Excessive power draw on T61

[Mike Kershaw]

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:40:14PM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:49:24 -0400, Mike Kershaw wrote:
>=20
> [...]
>=20
> > 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.
>=20
> I just read in the german computer magazine c't that a T61 with Intel
> graphics consumed 11W, whereas a T61 with nVidia graphics consumed 20W.
> Even the latter one stayed very cool during the test, though.

Well, that's interesting, and depressing, to hear.  Thanks for the info
though - were they testing under windows or linux?  Maybe nvidia will be
able to resolve it in a future driver version or something, I can always
hope...

-m

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