… that is, if your have a laptop. I’ve been running edgy almost since it was branched, today I’ve noticed that my laptop goes thought battery power like Jorge through beer. Then I thought about it and I did notice a couple times over the past two weeks that my laptops battery doesn’t last as long. Also my friend who work at Oakland noticed that their batteries don’t last as long on edgy as well (a couple of them made comments).
Now using the spify new gnome power manager I noticed that my laptop was sucking twice as much power then it was only a month ago (picture bellow); it use it show about consistend ~18W on full bright screen, now it uses around ~30W, so almost twice as much, at minimum brightness.
So if your running ubuntu on a laptop, I recommend holding off edgy till the issue is resolved, unless you can’t resist the new features and would like to enjoy half the battery time.
This has been a P.S.A, courtesy of meh.
P.S: To answer your questions, no there is no disk activity, and yes the cpu is running (mostly) in its lowest power state.
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