Laptop Power Consumption Self Study Resources
- How Much Power Does My Laptop Really Use? from Coding Horror: Programming and Human Factors, by Jeff Atwood. A break-down of laptop power consumption by major component, based on actual measurements of a running laptop.
- Saving Battery Life from The Laptop Junction: Extreme Laptop Travel. Combines good definitions and background information with real-life-based comparisons.
- How-To Setup Laptop Power Management in Linux Mint/Ubuntu posted to VodPod? by osgui. A nice, brief walk through of some basic power saving configuration settings for your laptop. NB: the basic interfaces are the same, but the some locations may have changed since this video was produced.
- Less Watts: Saving Power with Linux is the website of collection of projects from Intel that all focus on reducing computer power consumption. A lot of what's available on this site is designed for the technician who runs a bunch of servers, but if you're interested, this is a great resource to dig around in. Also the home of powertop, a fantastic command-line application for tracking down software that's burning your juice.
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