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A comment on Show HN: Setup a fancy development environment ... on a linux system console.

Re:Show HN: Setup a fancy development environment ... on a l... by autotravis on Thursday September 13, 2012 @10:32AM (#4516291)
Someone asks in the blog comments: What is the new watt usage after the environment is set up? I'm curious too.
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Re:Show HN: Setup a fancy development environment ... on a l... by scarmig on Thursday September 13, 2012 @11:48AM (#4516768)
The author responded in the comments:

"@sep332 @Mateus Carruccio, idle powertop doesn't change after the customizations compared to the non-customized console. Starting a framebuffer web browser pops up 200 wakeups per seconds. Also I was surprised by how much the backlight influence this number : around 5w difference, and my wireless mouse 2-3w. "

It appears it was originally at 15.2W with X and went to 9.98W in non-customized console.

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Re:Show HN: Setup a fancy development environment ... on a l... by krallja on Thursday September 13, 2012 @12:04PM (#4516887)
It was 15.2W with X and full brightness, and 9.98W in non-customized console and a dimmed screen.

The screen brightness makes most of the difference.

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