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I've been eyeing this due to its nice display. Glad to hear it works well with Ubuntu. How well does power management work? Battery life?
by jeremyjh 14y ago
I've been eyeing this due to its nice display. Glad to hear it works well with Ubuntu. How well does power management work? Battery life?
- w1ntermute 14y ago> How well does power management work? Do you mean suspend/resume? It works fine with Xubuntu. I close the laptop, it turns off. I open it up, it turns back on to the lock screen. Then when I log in, it automatically reconnects to wifi within a few seconds. This is all without any configuration. Battery life is great, I can get 5+ hours. But remember I'm running XFCE - things may not be the same with Unity or KDE.
- jeremyjh 14y ago>Do you mean suspend/resume? Yes but also CPU throttling. With that battery life it must be working. Does it get very hot or noisy?
- w1ntermute 14y agoI just checked the frequency using the xfce4-cpufreq-plugin package, and it looks like the CPU is scaled down to 800 MHz when on battery (the model I selected has a Core i5-3427U CPU @ 1.80 GHz). It hasn't gotten hot or noisy so far. The most demanding thing I regularly do on this laptop is watch HD video though, so it's not under that much strain. But there are definitely no issues with coding or web browsing.