Re: 8 hours of battery life on thinkpad x60

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Sep 18 2006 - 06:11:40 EST


On Mon 2006-09-18 09:44:54, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
> >I did a presentation about getting 8 hours of runtime out of common
> >notebooks. You can get it at
>
> So if I use an uncommon notebook with an uncommon battery (SONY
> PCGA-BP3U - 59070 mWh - 7 hours average) how much more am I supposed to
> get?

I can't tell, without seeing your machine.

> present rate: 8029 mW (currently WLAN + Webradio)

Turn down wlan and you should be able to have one more hour... Go
after drivers, and find the ones that do not power their hardware down
properly and you can get another hour or so...
Pavel
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