hiro wrote: > Thanks for looking over it. > I thought that the ibm drivers on windows would get the power usage > from acpi, too. There were other values, like battery capacity and > voltage, which seemed comparable to the ones on linux. > I've attached a screenshot with less than 7W power usage on the lowest > brightness. > Of course i had to manually kill a lot of apps, switched wireless off, > and so on. > But even if i don't switch these things off, i still get ~2W less > power usage than on linux with the same stuff on. > > I don't have a power meter yet, but i would like to get one. Can > someone recommend a device which will offer clean results? > And i will probably have to buy some of these plugs to stick that > power cable in, or how are you doing this stuff? >
The P3 kill-a-watt meter seems to work pretty well for me. The claimed accuracy is over 99.? percent. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16882715001 _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
