On Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 6:29:27 PM UTC-6, Peter M wrote: > Is anyone else noticing very significant increases in battery life with 3.2 > as opposed to 3.1? > > On 3.1 I was lucky to get 1h 30 min while with 3.2 I am easily getting 3 > hours. > I have an Nvidia Quadro graphics card so I am guessing some improvement in > the nouveau driver is helping. > > Anyone else want to share their battery life experiences?
Ok I can confirm a very significant improvement in power usage. In 3.1 with minimal activity (nothing but basic VM open) the usage is about 24W. Opening a few VM's (personal, work, etc) brings that up to about 28.5W. IN 3.2 with minimal activity (nothing but basic VM open) the usage is about 13.1W. Opening a few VM's (personal, work, etc) brings that up to about 16.3W. There is also an improvement in temperature. My laptop ran pretty warm in 3.1 while in 3.2 it runs cool. Going to dig into it more. My setup is Nvidia Quadro M2000M Intel Xeon M1505 16Gb Ram Given this is new hardware my guess is significant driver updates is the cause. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/66e3fe2d-9cc9-40ef-927a-c462b4292eef%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
