On 13.08.12 17:09, Roger wrote:
I wish that Linux was easier on batteries. In win 7 both my daughter's batteries lasted around 3 hours. One installed Ubuntu 11.04 and the battery dropped to 70 minutes, the other installed 12.04 and battery lasts about 48 minutes.
The Thinkpad I've had since the start of the year gives over three hours with Debian/LXE installed. Well, that's what acpid says - I've only run it for around two hours at a time, and then there's a predicted nearly an hour left. On NEC laptops, one with Debian, one with Ubuntu, I had about the same, but with a sharp taper at the end. Erik -- Withdrawals from Spain in May were 41.3 billion euros and are now up to 163 billion in total. Switzerland, meanwhile, is buying 3 billion euros a day with newly printed Swiss francs to try to keep its currency down because of all the money flooding into Zurich. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-01/kohler-era-of-deleveraging/4168778