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Re:Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop by dman on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @12:50PM (#11246985)
Yes using powertop, ive been able to get my last intel laptop (thinkpad t440) to ~8W and my latest amd laptop (a hp 745 g3 carrizo) to ~10W. Initial value on the intel laptop from memory was ~24W and on the amd laptop it was 21W.
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Re:Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop by justinsb on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @06:14PM (#11249566)
I'd love to read a blogpost/github repo with how you did it, if you ever write one.
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Re:Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop by task_queue on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @11:54PM (#11251014)
https://www.reddit.com/r/debian/comments/3k3fzm/bad_battery_...

Is a general overview. Intel graphics cards almost never enter the lowest idle state in Linux, last time I checked.

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Re:Power Wastage on an Idle Laptop by hauget on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @08:01PM (#11250087)
This is a good start http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-faq.html Depending on your HW/distro/DE, you might want to start playing around with powertop --calibrate and TLP. Highly suggest switching to a lightweight DE like i3.
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