[ltp] X200 Battery Life

[Andrew Mason]

6W! I can't get anywhere close to that. Do you have an X200s ? Mine is
just an X200 and I am around 10 most of the time. Just going to try
the pcie thing now in the kernel but ...yeh..wow!

On 12/19/08, Tino Keitel <tino.keitel@tikei.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 19:43:50 -0800, n0rdik0 wrote:
>
> [...]
>
>> 5. How can this be possible? Is it fixable somehow?
>> - What on earth is Lenovo doing on Windows to make such a big difference?
>> With disks spinning it's 8 - 5.3 = 2.7 Watts!! Almost 50% more on linux!!
>> Is
>> there any way to ask them for help with this? Is there any way for me to
>> help figure it out?
>
> As Lenovo just buys standard hardware (mostly from intel), and AFAIK
> uses standard Windows and its drivers, and windows driver writers are
> either working at intel or getting information from Intel, I would say
> it is Intels job to put its knowledge regarding its own hardware and
> powersaving into Linux, or at least provide the information required to
> do this.
>
> Other things may be features which are hard to achieve with current
> Linux software. For instance, I read that Windows clocks down the TFT
> refresh rate and the graphics chip dramatically if nothing happens on
> the screen.
>
> Regards,
> Tino
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