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[Reinhard Oldenburg <roldenburg@xxxxxx>]

Thanks for all the answers. I'll work a bit on this in the weekend.
In principle I feel that it would be so much easier if Sony had someone
to collect such information. As my Z13 has a Display fault I'll go
either for a new Z or a Macbook which is Unix-ish enough for me.  
Thanks
Reinhard
 
Am 11.05.2012 07:19, schrieb Danilo Šegan:
> У чет, 10. 05 2012. у 13:49 +0200, Danilo Šegan пише:
>> У чет, 05. 04 2012. у 13:45 +0200, Reinhard Oldenburg пише:
>>> Thanks for the two replies so far. They triggered me to install Bumblebee and swithcing to inteal graphivs with this  (and still the originl BIOS) I get power consumption of 13-15 W. This is not as low as others reported but acceptable (yielding 3h of time on battery). Maybe the i7-640M in my model is responsible for this.
>> Screen brightness and bluetooth are the other big battery drainers for
>> me.  Without sony-laptop module by Norbert I can't easily change the
>> screen brightness.  Turning of bluetooth and 3g card (when not in use,
>> of course), cuts down on a few watts as well.
> And don't forget the fingerprint reader: you can get your USB devices to
> sleep with "powertop":
>
>   5.10 W    100,0%                      Device         Display backlight
>   3.00 W    100,0%                      Device         Radio device:
> iwlwifi
>   2.47 W    100,0%                      Device         USB device:
> Fingerprint S
>   1.27 W    100,0%                      Device         Radio device:
> btusb
>
> Cheers,
> Danilo
>
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