[Arm-netbook] Power consumption

[JLB]

On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:

> 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.

Personally, I haven't been too happy with my battery life. It seems to run 
down faster than it ought. I haven't timed it yet, but it just "feels" too 
drain-y. Then again, I'm used to my ginormous 9-cell whopper on my MSI 
Wind...

I'll get some timing data, maybe, but I wonder if I could hack in a 
battery with more mAh worth of capacity....

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