Ubuntu 11.10 Power Consumption Up By As Much As ~50%

[dargllun]

I suspected he wanted to make the tests as fair as possible as he is comparing older versions of Ubuntu that use the gnome desktop. Unity is not only knew but highly gpu depended. if he used it the power consumption would of probably been through the roof.

Sure; what I meant, though, is that a clean install of 11.04 defaults to using Unity, as does 11.10, so I'd have expected that he compares that. I wouldn't be too surprised if 11.04 with Unity is just as bad as 11.10, but that might make the story less interesting.

[steevven1]

LaunchPad Bug Report

The Sandy Bridge-specific bug report for this is located here at Ubuntu LaunchPad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/834037

[fewt]