On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 08:05:01 +0100, Leszek Koltunski wrote: > The question is: how come single-user Linux (with all the tricks I could > think of! ) is still using 2W more than Windows XP after 5 minutes of > hasty configuration? Anyone can explain that? I think mostly because the Windows driver writers have all the hardware specs. It is not only an issue on ThinkPads. Regards, Tino