On 3 February 2014 14:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker <gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk> wrote: > Does anyone know whether 14.04 will fix the very short battery life problem > on laptops? > > Example - in 13.10 my Lenovo U410 tells me the battery will only last just > over 2 hours - Windows 8.1 on the same machine, nearly SIX hours!
As others have said, this is not a generic problem. Most of the laptops I've tried last /longer/ on Linux due to lower system load (no antivirus etc.) Your power management is not working correctly, I would say. -- Liam Proven * Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk * GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com * Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 * Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
