[ubuntu-uk] 14.04 and laptop battery life

[Liam Proven]

On 3 February 2014 14:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker
<gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk> wrote:
> Does anyone know whether 14.04 will fix the very short battery life problem
> on laptops?
>
> Example - in 13.10 my Lenovo U410 tells me the battery will only last just
> over 2 hours - Windows 8.1 on the same machine, nearly SIX hours!


As others have said, this is not a generic problem. Most of the
laptops I've tried last /longer/ on Linux due to lower system load (no
antivirus etc.)

Your power management is not working correctly, I would say.

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