On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 13:40 -0500, Brown, Len wrote: > >> If I remember correctly there was some sort of windows > >>driver supplied > > >> > >EXACTLY. It is the main problem. I'm afraid that BIOS writers > >are writing just the basic part, and they hope that the rest will be done by > >the OS > >driver (which they eventually also supply, but just for the "majority" > >OS :-((( ). > > Please measure the A/C power running Windows and measure the power > running Linux and report back if they are different.
That would really be interesting. And I do have a power meter, it says that putting the processors in C2 really does save ~70 watts, running linux. I cannot test it for windows though, I do not have a license, nor the install CD's nor any spare room on the disks to put it on :-(. So I hope somebody else does...
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