[ltp] X61 power consumption

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 27 Nov 2008 10:17:09 +0100


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