-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 2016-08-01 18:36, Peter M wrote: > 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. >
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