On 13 October 2014 13:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gordo...@mail.com> wrote: > > How do you find the battery life on your Lenovo x? > I have a Lenovo U410 and the battery life, even with TPL installed never > goes much over 3 hours...which is a pita....
I can get 3 hours repeatably, but this is not light-use. There's normally a bit of software compilation, 3G device tethering, and probably phone charging, with base consumption about 16W according to powertop. I've found with mine that fancontrol can make a huge difference. The main fan sucks up about 8W on its lowest setting according to powertop (and the secondary some more), so setting fancontrol to activate a little higher than normal (60C or so rather than 45C) saves huge amounts of power; during normal use mine won't go much higher than 55C anyway. J -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
