[ltp] X60 - (bad) experience, others?

[Tim Niemeyer]

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Hallo Ari,

I have a X61s and have the same problems...
What makes this difference on power consumption between windows and linux?

* Ari El <ari.reads@gmail.com> [02-02-08 12:16]:
> From: Ari El <ari.reads@gmail.com>
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> Subject: Re: [ltp] X60 - (bad) experience, others?
> Date: Sat, 2 Feb 2008 12:16:07 -0800 (PST)
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> I have an X60s (1702, Core Duo (not core2)) with and 8-cell battery pack.
>=20
> What I'd say is: the bad experience on the X60s is with Linux. The machine
> itself is awesome.
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> I've had it for a year and a half; with WinXP it is really fast for most
> purposes, runs cold, and after all this time it is still giving me 8 to 9h
> of battery life when used for writing (word) and light surfing (wireless
> on), 30 or 40% brightness. Consumption averages an awesome 7.5W, and I've
> seen it going to 6W with wireless off. It wakes up from hibernation in 15
> seconds or so. And all this is with no SSD drive... yet!
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> I installed dual-boot Linux in the x60s the day I bought it, and kept
> re-installing all new ubuntu releases. Everything basically works (save f=
or
> the fingerprint reader, although I heard it is possible to make it work).
> Even after tweaking, power consumption averages 10 to 11W for the same us=
age
> pattern as above.=20
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> I bought the machine to carry it around, so I'm still booting winxp on it=
=2E I
> can't wait for the day linux will give me a comparable battery life. I
> switched to linux in every other machine at the office and at home, but n=
ot
> in my x60s, yet.=20
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> I'm sure  powertop, the tickless kernel mode and other good work of intel
> and other folks will eventually trickle down the chain and we will
> eventually get there. I thought this was going to faster though.=20
I don't think this things will help for longer battery life... :-(


Tim Niemeyer

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