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

[Ari El]

Well, I heard that Vista's power consumption is significantly higher that xp,
on this machine. I heard about people "upgrading" from vista to xp because
of this.

I don't really care. I just would like to run linux as my everyday OS in it,
but it doesn't yet cut it. Hopefully this year or the next it will do :/




Adrian Walker-2 wrote:
> 
> Hi All --
> 
> Now that's a mystery.  On my X60s, Linux Fedora Core6 yields much _longer_
> battery life than Vista.
> 
> Maybe different Linux versions differ in this regard?
> 
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> On 2/3/08, Tim Niemeyer <tim.niemeyer@mastersword.de> wrote:
>>
>> 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)
>> >
>> >
>> > I have an X60s (1702, Core Duo (not core2)) with and 8-cell battery
>> pack.
>> >
>> > What I'd say is: the bad experience on the X60s is with Linux. The
>> machine
>> > itself is awesome.
>> >
>> > 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!
>> >
>> > 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
>> for
>> > 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
>> usage
>> > pattern as above.
>> >
>> > I bought the machine to carry it around, so I'm still booting winxp on
>> it. 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
>> not
>> > in my x60s, yet.
>> >
>> > 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.
>> I don't think this things will help for longer battery life... :-(
>>
>>
>> Tim Niemeyer
>>
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