[Arm-netbook] Power consumption

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> Luke asked me to try & get an idea of the power consumption of these arm-netbooks.
>
> I have not really fiddled with mine yet (thanks parcel farce) so these measurements are
> done on the install as delivered.
>
> I have a power meter, I plugged it into there so the measurement includes the external
> power unit (actually a slightly different one since that has a 3 pin (UK) plug on it).
>
> First running not plugged in, it ran for 2 hours 50 minutes. The screen was on all the time
> (did not blank), wifi was on and it was running top & a little script that looped
> and echoed the time to the ssh tty and to a file once/second ... until it ran out of
> power.

 wifi on as well? cool!  thank you for doing that, alain.  another
possible experiment is running a video, but that's a fantastic
indicator to start with.

 l.