suspended laptop's power consumption

[Marcin Jessa]

On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 09:52:57 +0200
Michal Mertl <mime at traveller.cz> wrote:

> My notebook (IBM ThinkPad R51) suspends to S3 well. It drains the
> batteries probably almost as fast as when running. I'd expect it's
> mostly hardware (and at most also ACPI DSDT) issue but windows last much
> longer when suspended.
> 
My R50e lasts pretty long. I can leave it over night with just a few % of battery power left. I never really measured how long.
What I meassured is the laptop will work in about 4.5 hours when left alone with powerd setting CPU freq to the lowest one and with turned off screen backlight.

Marcin