[ltp] What to take care of when buying a Lenovo?

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:33:27PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> On lun, 2008-03-10 at 11:51 -0400, n8tm@aol.com wrote:
> > lack of support for power saving features and tpctl
>=20
> Are you kidding?
>=20
> (btw I don't even know what is tpctl)
>=20
> Power saving features works perfectly fine on 64bit, thanks
>=20
> Power usage (ACPI estimate): 14,8W (3,6 hours)=20
>=20
> with wifi on, apps running, etc.

I think the original claimant might have thought about tickless kernels
in latest distro releases.  IIRC Ubuntu 7.10 has a 2.6.21 kernel which
is tickless on x86 but not on x86-64.

I haven't personally measured whether it makes any difference in battery
life.

Marius Gedminas
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