Re: [tlug] Laptop power consumption

[Kyle Hasegawa <kylehase@example.com>]

On 08/18/2010 07:04 PM, Ian Barwick wrote:
> You might want to check if that's something like "maximum battery
> life under optimal conditions", i.e. running in a cool room with screen
> dimmed, network connections - particularly Wifi - off and the OS not
> doing much apart from displaying a terminal.
>    

There should be a standard benchmark for battery life like there is for 
MPG.  It may not be accurate real world battery life (neither is MPG) 
but we'd have a standardized measurement to comparison between models.