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Idle consumptions
2010-04-18T13:33:08Z
<p>Ari: </p>
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<div>This page reports the minimal consumptions of Thinkpads when idle. This means, in principle: minimum brightness, CPU and GPU at lowest speed, no wifi, hard drive spun down, no pcmcia cards inserted (see details of each entry).<br />
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This kind of information has several uses: comparing one's consumption with that of other people's setups, knowing which model to use as a gateway/file server, etc.<br />
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{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"<br />
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! Model !! OS !! Remarks !! consumption <br />
|----<br />
|{{600E}} PII/366 || Debian Lenny/2.6.21 gnome || back light off, laptop-mode-tools enabled, fan on, idling, measured with powertop || 6W<br />
|----<br />
|{{600E}} PII/366 || Debian Lenny/2.6.21 gnome || Min brightness, laptop-mode-tools enabled, fan on, idling, measured with powertop || 7.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{600E}} PII/366 || Debian Lenny/2.6.21 gnome || Max brightness, laptop-mode-tools enabled, fan on, idling, measured with powertop || 9.2W<br />
|----<br />
|{{600E}} PII/366 || Debian Lenny/2.6.21 gnome || Max brightness, laptop-mode-tools enabled, fan on, 100% cpu utilisation, measured with powertop || ~22W<br />
|----<br />
|{{600E}} PIII/450 || Archlinux/2.6.28 openbox || 1 xterm window, backlight on, fan off || 6.2W<br />
|----<br />
|{{R50e}}|| Gentoo (linux-2.6.22-rc4 force_HPET, fluxbox) ||With Networking, USB, firefox, thunderbird || 11.1W<br />
|----<br />
|{{R50e}}|| Gentoo (linux-2.6.22-rc4 force_HPET, fluxbox) ||Fluxbox + shell (+fan) || 10.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{R50e}}|| Gentoo (linux-2.6.22-rc4 force_HPET, fluxbox) ||Blank Screen after 20min idle (+fan) || 7.1W<br />
|----<br />
|{{R51e}}|| Gentoo (linux-2.6.24-gentoo-r4) || KDE, min. brightness, tp-fancontrol, ondemand, laptop_mode, madwifi-ng (no powersave), wpa_supplicant, ca 60 wakeups || 14.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{R52}}|| Gentoo (linux-2.6.22-rc6 + phc + hrt) ||Min brightness, tp-fancontrol, ipw2200 with power_save 5, undervolted, ondemand, laptop_mode, rovclock -c 100 -m 100<br />virtual console (idle kde desktop adds about 0.2W) || 12.1W<br />
|----<br />
|{{R61}}||Ubuntu 7.04||Wireless on||16.4W<br />
|----<br />
|{{R61}}|| Xubuntu 7.10 || custom kernel 2.6.24, Minimal power consumption with Wireless off, hdd spun down, Backlight min, laptop-mode, ondemand, echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/sched_mc_power_savings, echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs, ALPM on, firewire module unloaded, nvidia, hdaps (powertop 1.9)|| 10.8W (min) ~16.5W (usable brightness, wifi on) 39.7W (max, kernel compilation with -j3 option)<br />
|----<br />
|{{T23}}||Ubuntu 7.04|| || 10.7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T40}}||Gentoo (2.6.23-rc6-hrt2)|| [http://www.linuxpowertop.org/patches/kernel-2.6.22-rc1.patch Bg-timer patch], HPET-patches, radeon, <tt>rovclock -c 105 -m 122</tt>, no DRI, sound power_save = Y, min. brightness, no networking, with USB, Laptop-Mode, X & 1x URxvt || 7,4W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T41p}}||Ubuntu 7.10|| Undervolted, fglrx, no dri; fan->+0.5W, powerstate=2->+0.7W, HD->+1.5W, no usb || 7.7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T42}} (2373)||Debian 4.0 Etch|| Kernel 2.6.21_rc5 + hrtimer, rovclock -c 100 -m 120 (Radeon M10), no DRI, min bright. (+3W max), no wifi (+1W if idle) || 9.4W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T42}} (2373)||Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid|| 14" 1024x768 Kernel 2.6.28+tickless+hrtimer, rovclock -c 110 -m 180 (Radeon M7), Xorg + DRI, min bright. (+2.5W max), lan & wifi down, laptop-mode enabled, ultrabay ejected, fan on (auto) || 7.8W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T42}} (2373)||Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid|| 14" 1024x768 Kernel 2.6.28+tickless+hrtimer, rovclock -c 110 -m 180 (Radeon M7), Xorg + DRI, backlight off, lan & wifi down, laptop-mode enabled, ultrabay ejected, fan on (auto) || 5.6W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T43}} (1871)||Debian (Linux 2.6.21, fluxbox)|| DRI, alsa (power_save=1), with usb, no networking || 10.1W (12.0W with HD)<br />
|----<br />
|{{T43}} (2669)||Gentoo (2.6.20-gentoo-r5)|| Undervolted, fglrx (powerstate=1), DRI, no alsa, no usb modules, no networking || 12.7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T43}} (2686)||Fedora Core 6 (2.6.19.x patched)|| Undervolted, radeon, <tt>rovclock -c 125 -m 130</tt>, no DRI, ALSA <tt>power_save=1</tt>, no usb modules, no networking, min brightness, HDD spun down || 15W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T400}} (WC8...)||Ubuntu 9.04 unpatched kernel||*[[Save power with Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) on a ThinkPad T400]] || 11-13W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T60}} (2007)||Fedora Core 6|| Wireless kill switch on, 1400x1050 panel @ min brightness, fglrx (powerstate=1), HDD spun up (~1W saving without) || 16W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T60}} (2007)||Kubuntu 7.04|| 1400x1050 panel @ min brightness, hald killed, laptop mode enabled, wireless powersave|| 13.3 W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T60}} (2007)||KUbuntu 7.04|| Wireless on, 1680x1050 panel @ medium brightness, fglrx (powerstate=1) || 16W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T60}} (2623D6U)||Debian testing (linux-2.6.21-1-686)||1400x1050 14" min-bright, iwpriv wlan0 set_power 7, VESA driver|| 12,7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T61}} ||Ubuntu 8.04 ||14" 1024x768 panel,intel graphics, 6% bright, wireless off, vanilla kernel 2.6.25|| 9.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{T61}} ||Gentoo 2008.0 ||14" 1440x900 panel, nVidia, min brightness, wireless off, sound off, nvidia unloaded, laptop_mode, gentoo-sources 2.6.25-gentoo-r6, measured with powertop|| ~13W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200}}||Mint 8 , KDE||2.6.32, second to minimum brightness, no radios, idle, powertop suggestions followed||7.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200}}||Fedora 12, KDE, Compiz||2.6.31, second to minimum brightness (/proc/acpi/video/VID/LCD0/brightness = 25), no radios, idle, powertop suggestions followed, unused I/O ports disabled in BIOS||7.2W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Gentoo Linux , Fluxbox||2.6.29, HDD stopped, min brightness||6.0W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Gentoo Linux , TWM||2.6.31, SSD, min brightness, powertop improvements, no network||5.6W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Arch Linux||2.6.27.9, idle kde3, hda_intel power_save 5, HDD stopped, min brightness, radios off, pcie_aspm in powersave, 8bit color depth||6.2W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Arch Linux|| SL9400, 12.1" 1440x900 panel, min. brightness, wifi/bt off || 7.2W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Arch Linux||2.6.27.8, idle kde3 (9 int/s), hda_intel power_save 5, HDD stopped, min brightness, radios off, pcie_aspm in powersave||7.3W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Arch Linux||2.6.27.8, kde3+firefox+daemons, hda_intel power_save 5, HDD spinning up/down, brightness 6/15, wifi on, pcie_aspm in powersave||8.7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Ubuntu 8.10||2.6.27.9, 12.1" 1280x800 panel, min. brightness, wifi/bt off, laptop_mode, total idle||7.3W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Ubuntu 8.10||2.6.27.9, 12.1" 1280x800 panel, half. brightness, wifi/bt off, laptop_mode, simple word-processing (open office) ||~10.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||Ubuntu 8.10||2.6.27.9, 12.1" 1280x800 panel, half. brightness, wifi on, laptop_mode, active firefox, amarok playing (via airtunes), pidgin ||~12.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}} 7466-3TG||Ubuntu 9.10||2.6.31-15-generic, 12.1" 1280x800 panel, brightness 35, wifi on, pm-utils, active firefox [http://axa-ru.blogspot.com/2009/12/ubuntu-910-thinkpad-x200s-power-saving.html] ||6.3W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X200s}}||OpenSUSE 11.1||2.6.29-66.1 (HEAD from Factory repo), 12.1" 1440x900 led panel, brighness 5 (33%), wifi on, laptop_mode, kde 3.5, active firefox, ||~7.3W<br />
|----<br />
|{{x300}}||Ubuntu 9.04||2.6.28-11-generic 13.3" 1440x900 panel, brightness 50%, wifi on, laptop_mode, active firefox, xmms2 playing, some terminals||~11 W<br />
|----<br />
|{{x300}}||Ubuntu 9.04||2.6.28-11-generic 13.3" 1440x900 panel, brightness 50%, wifi off, laptop_mode, xmms2 playing, some terminals ||~8.8 W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X21}}||Kubuntu 7.04|| Minimal consumption with kde loaded.||5.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X31}}||Debian Etch||2.6.22rc6+hrt1 patch+radeon patch||~ 8 W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X31}} (2672-C2G)||Debian Etch||vanilla 2.6.23rc8 tickless kernel, wireless rf-kill on, min brightness, hdd idle but spinning||~ 9.6 W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X32}}||Slackware||2.6.23.1+hrt3 patch, tickless kernel, undervolted to 0.716, ati gfx @ 90mhz core 90mhz mem, hdd is CF, min brightness, wifi ON||~ 8.2 W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X32}}||Slackware||2.6.23.1+hrt3 patch, tickless kernel, undervolted to 0.716, ati gfx @ 90mhz core 90mhz mem, hdd is CF, max brightness, wifi ON||~ 11 W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X40}}||Kubuntu 7.10||2.6.22, min brightness, wifi ON||~8.7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X40}}||Opensuse 11.0; June08||std. install + laptop-mode-tools.rpm; 2.6.25, min brightness, wifi on. normal X-server, hd spun down||~8.0W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X40}}||Debian Squeeze||2.6.33 custom Kernel, wifi off, min brightness: 3.3 wakeups/s||~6.7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X41}}||Fedora 7||2.6.23.1+phc patch, tickless kernel, undervolted to 0.7, under X, min brightness, wifi ON||~11W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X60}}||Ubuntu 7.04||Wireless kill switch on, min brightness||10.2W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X60s}}||Debian Etch||2.6.21 tickless kernel, processes tweaked with powertop, usb/fw unloaded, hd spun down, min brightness, ipw3945 set to powersave mode 7||8.3W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X60s}}||Debian Etch||2.6.21 tickless kernel, processes tweaked with powertop, usb/fw unloaded, hd spun down, min brightness,ipw3945 unloaded||9W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X60s}}||Debian Lenny(testing)|| 2.6.22 tickless kernel, hrt-patch, alpm-patches, almost everything unloaded (wifi,pcmcia,ethernet,usb,firewire,sd,snd) and stopped (no X11,only cron/syslog), no vesa-fb, min brightness, 5 min idle, measured with powertop 1.7 (ACPI)||7.7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X60s}}||Debian Lenny(testing)|| 2.6.22 tickless kernel, hrt-patch, alpm-patches, almost everything unloaded (wifi,pcmcia,ethernet,usb,firewire,sd,snd), with X11 (latest intel-xorg-driver, DRI enabled) and one x-terminal running, min brightness, 5 min idle, measured with powertop 1.7 (ACPI)||8.3W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X61}}||OpenSUSE 11.1|| 2.6.27.7 tickless, KDE 4.2 Beta2, X.Org 7.4 (dri on, fb compression enabled), BT/WiFi OFF, HDD spun down, brightness 0, fan running, default modules loaded, PowerTOP 1.10||10.4W (without X running 10.1W)<br />
|----<br />
|{{X61_Tablet}}||Ubuntu Gutsy(tribe6)|| 2.6.23-rc6-hrt1 x86_64, everything unloaded & stopped, lcd backlight off, hd powered down, powertop 1.8||8.5W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X61_Tablet}}||Xubuntu Gutsy|| 2.6.24-rc3, everything unloaded, lcd backlight 10%, hd powered down, powertop 1.8||7,8W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X61s}} (7666-36G)||Debian Sid|| 2.6.33-rc6, everything unloaded, HD spinned down, xbacklight -set 0, idle Xfce desktop (16 bit colors), [http://tikei.de/sata_poweroff_2.6.33.patch SATA poweroff patch], intel-xorg 2.9.1||7,4W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X301}}||Debian Lenny|| 2.6.29.1, wifi down, lan down, wan down, no WOL, ondemand scaling, brightness 100% || 10,7W (6.3h w/ bay battery)<br />
|----<br />
|{{X301}}||Debian Lenny|| 2.6.29.1, wifi down, lan down, wan down, no WOL, ondemand scaling, brightness 50% || 8,7W<br />
|----<br />
|{{X301}}||Debian Lenny|| 2.6.29.1, wifi down, lan down, wan down, no WOL, ondemand scaling, brightness 0% || 7,8W (8.8h w/ bay battery)<br />
|----</div>
Ari