> Why if you are on AC power does it matter, if the user chooses to not > worry about consumption while on AC and only cares about saving power > once switching to battery? I do not think I get what you are trying to > tell me. I do not use pm-powersave or anything like that I just use a > simple handler.sh with acpi. Doing it the way I said and only caring > about power on battery since that is when I need it to last, I have gone > from a simple 1.5hrs to well over 3.5 hrs on battery. Again why does > what the wattage on AC really matter.
first of all, if you're acting as a server in a datacenter it really matters. second... burning power in once place will reduce performance in other places; more and more things in systems are now thermally limited; for example, the CPU turbo mode is limited if the system gets warmer. likewise, things like that are current supply limited. Also, your battery will charge slower if system power consumption is higher... and.. if you burn a few more watts, that's CO2 you're generating for no good reason. anything that you tune either should be always tuned (e.g. free) or involves a tradeoff, for which the question pretty much never is "am I on AC", but "can the user tolerate X right now". Once you ask that right question, and solve that, then "on AC" will turn out never be in that picture. _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lesswatts.org http://lists.lesswatts.org/listinfo/discuss
