[ltp] Excessive power draw on T61

[Tino Keitel]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 16:09:22 -0400, Mike Kershaw wrote:
> 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:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > 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

These tests were done with Windows.

Regards,
Tino