[OLPC-AU] Calculating total power draw of XO

[Martin Langhoff]

On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at laptop.org.au> wrote:
> Obviously, 'on average' is a spurious measure, but a rough idea would suffice.

For XO-1.5, "average" is _very_ misleading, because it jumps
significantly between idle suspend and running. Which also means usage
patterns change the overall power use radically.

Modes is a much better statistical tool in this case.

This is similar to current generation smartphones -- a battery charge
will go a long way in idle, or burn rather fast if you're watching
youtube videos or using the gps navigation facilities.

hth,



m
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