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[Adam Hill <sidepipeuk@xxxxxxxxx>]

	Personally not had that problem. The power adaptor with mine is rated at 
19.5V, 4.7A, which is far more than 40W! ( That's a VPCZ12. )

Adam.

On Wednesday 27 April 2011 11:40:40 Jordi Augé wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having this issue, where under heavy load (and running nvidia) the
> laptop will discharge the battery even while plugged in. After 4-5 hours
> of heavy usage, the battery will go from 90% to 45% approx, plugged in all
> the time.
> 
> With powertop, I've had the ACPI Estimate power usage rise up to 53 W,
> which is very high, especially considering the power brick delivers only
> 40 W.
> 
> All of this is in a VPCZ11X9/e, with bios-provided static graphics
> switching, running a fully updated Ubuntu Natty.
> 
> The laptop otherwise works fine, and minimum consumption (intel graphics,
> dimmed down screen, no radio and minimum processor speed) is about 11W,
> according to powertop.
> 
> So, what's the maximum power consumption for you? Do you have more powerful
> power bricks? Ever had the battery discharge while plugged in?
> 
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