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[Kelly Anderson]

hiro wrote:
> Thanks for looking over it.
> I thought that the ibm drivers on windows would get the power usage
> from acpi, too. There were other values, like battery capacity and
> voltage, which seemed comparable to the ones on linux.
> I've attached a screenshot with less than 7W power usage on the lowest
> brightness.
> Of course i had to manually kill a lot of apps, switched wireless off,
> and so on.
> But even if i don't switch these things off, i still get ~2W less
> power usage than on linux with the same stuff on.
>
> I don't have a power meter yet, but i would like to get one. Can
> someone recommend a device which will offer clean results?
> And i will probably have to buy some of these plugs to stick that
> power cable in, or how are you doing this stuff?
>   

The P3 kill-a-watt meter seems to work pretty well for me.  The claimed 
accuracy is over 99.? percent.

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