On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 3:06 AM, Christopher Svanefalk <christopher.svanef...@gmail.com> wrote: > This might not be news to all of you, but I thought it was worth sharing. I > really appreciate the work Intel has been doing and keep doing for power > management in the Linux kernel, and hopefully things will only keep getting > better. The > 1 hour difference in battery life between Windows and Linux > reported by one subscriber to this list, although it perhaps isn't > representative, is still completely unacceptable.
Right, but there is a catch - no matter how good we are at putting power savings code upstream, it doesn't mean that manufacturers will not completely undo all the good work when they ship their devices with Windows only (and put bios/firmware on it that we have no control over at Intel). I'm the sad owner of an Acer Aspire S3 that runs for maybe 2.5 hours on battery, even though they claim 6 under windows. Did it mean Intel or Intel's Linux engineers failed? Hell no. (I wish we had failed, because that would mean that we would be in a position to fix it). Once OEM's ship product with Linux we'll be in a position to really fix the issue.... Auke _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lesswatts.org http://lists.lesswatts.org/listinfo/discuss
