Lenovo Thinkpad Edge 13: Windows 7 vs Ubuntu (10.04) power saving

[Christoph Bier]

Ali Milis schrieb am 03.05.2010 13:37:

> To Whom It May Concern;
> 
> Please send me some clues and hints about how to tweak
> Ubuntu power saving. No flame, please!
> 
> If I use Windows 7, I can stay more then 5 hours on a Thinkpad
> Edge 13. But, on Ubuntu 10.04, I can only stay for about 3 hours.
> 
> My applications are more or less the same for Windows and Linux:
> mostly Firefox and WiFi.

There's a mailing list for Linux on ThinkPads:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Mailinglists#Linux-ThinkPad_Mailinglist

To identify power eating processes try PowerTOP:
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/powertop/

HTH

Regards
Christoph
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