Re: [Mactel-linux-devel] C4 state - Status report

[Soeren S. <mac...@nn...>]

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 22:47 +0200, Sheer El-Showk wrote:
> On 4/25/07, Till Straumann <str...@sl...> wrote:
> > /I can confirm your report (mbp, c1d here) - I also
> > found similar results (~17-18W) under osx. On linux
> > I get down to 20-21W (low brighness, disk at rest, CPU freq
> > at 1GHz, ati powerstate=1) but I found that unloading
> > the 'uvcvideo' driver (isight) seems to save almost
> > another ~1W or so - I'm at 19-20W right now.
> 
> This is considerably better than an mbp c2d.  If you don't set
> powerstate to the lowest state what do you get?  

around 30W

> Do your fans run at a
> higher speed than in OS X?

no. except I force them to (which I do (~2500RPM) as this mbp gets too
hot and this is independent of the OS you use)

Soeren