Which Laptop was used for the screenshot?
Arjan van de Ven
arjan at linux.intel.com
Mon Sep 24 11:48:59 PDT 2007
Sascha Heid wrote:
> Hi List!
>
> On the main page is a screenshot showing a power-consumption of only
> 14.1W which is especially low considering the relative high wakeups
> per second (81).
> Together with the high battery-capacity (6.6h left) this does not even
> appear to be a ultra-mobile ultra-low-power kind-of laptop.
I used a Dell Latitude D505 for this; this has 2 batteries (one of
them is in the media bay)
>
> I guess it can only be a Pentium-M machine.
> When i bought my core-duo laptop i thought they would be even more
> power-efficient but i don't think that anymore.
the cpu actually is.
>
> I can reach 14W on my LV-CoreDuo Laptop (Thinkpad X60T) but not in the
> long-term (even when idle).
>
> PS: I alway assume the display-brightness being at maximum since i
> personally never dimm it.
your LCD is the biggest power consumer in your system though;
the bigger the screen the more power is consumed, esp at full
brightness....
I've seem people with smaller screens (mine is 15") go well below 10
Watts...
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