I use a Sony Vaio VGN-S460. It has the pentium Centrino processor. After a fresh install I'm idling at 40% sometimes higher, with nothing but the OS running. I havent tried adding this maxcstate yet, but this whole bug seems to also affect graphic usage as well.
-- P-M high idle CPU usage, reported as fixed, persists in edgy https://launchpad.net/bugs/73275 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
