Hello All,
I want to find out whether it is possible to improve the life of a notebook batery using software. In other words is it possible to make a software thst will help our notebook battery to work longer.
Note that I am not asking this question for a specific platform. I want to find out whether it is feasible to do this type of thing using software. I have come to know that IBM Thinkpad comes with a battery maximizer.
Thanks,
Uzair Lakhani,
Karachi, Pakistan.
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what?
welllll...
you can enable "LAPTOP Mode", underclock the cpu, darken the background light, remove all unnecessary devices which are powered by the battery (like USB-keyboards or mouses), use all kinds of stuff to put turn off the display/hdd/system when nobody uses it after some minutes, and so on...
Stealth
Or buy a laptop that has a "Stealth" mode that runs everything with minimal power. Alienware offers these...
You can look at this guide. I
You can look at this guide. It's not that much gentoo centric, so you should be able to use these on any distro.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml
Linux Laptop Battery Life
Read this paper from this year's OLS, it gives some insight:
Linux Laptop Battery Life