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Re: new testing release of sony-laptop-zseries 0.9np8pre3

 

At Fri, 12 Aug 2011 23:49:26 +0200,
Carlchristian Eckert wrote:
> I can report everything working without any problems. Finally the great
> battery care feature, thanks a lot for this!
> 
> Currently battery life is about 4-5 hours with the nvidia-card, full
> brightness (doing websurfing, spreadsheets, etc.)
> 
> (Running Arch Linux with the 3.0 kernel on a VGN-Z21VN, Static switching
> between the graphics card through an unlocked bios)

Is that with the standard battery? I struggle to get more than 4 hours
out of my VPC-Z12 with the intel GPU, standard battery and static
switching.

Simon


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