Comments on: Notebook Power: Where Does it All Go?

By: Luscious

Luscious — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:46:31 +0000

Hardly an accurate assessment, and not something I would be posting as a news item.

A 17″ HP dv7 with it’s 65W power adapter will distribute that juice much differently than a Toshiba Qosmio X305-Q708 with it’s 230W power brick feeding a quad-core CPU and 3 graphics cards.

Having general numbers is fine, but I see no use for them when they are wrong, and cannot be applied to the particular unit you may be using.

By: Mickey Segal

Mickey Segal — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:16:30 +0000

What about WiFi? I’d always thought that chewed up a lot of power. Is that included in one of the other categories or is this for a laptop with Ethernet only?

By: TickClock

TickClock — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:09:44 +0000

Pie Chart at 90% lol

thats the MS i love!

i really like your desktop OS MS, but please just stop with everything else you do. you guys cant even get the most FUNDAMENTAL aspect of a pie chart correct, its just getting embarrassing.

By: ElecPro

ElecPro — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:46:25 +0000

hard to take MS serious when they cant even do basic math. the pie chart only adds up to 90%. i just dont know how anybody can trust any of their research.

before people say “the last 10% means “other”. okay, well says who? MS didnt say it, just some random guy on a forum. fact is, MS couldnt even get their basic math right on this 1.

By: Kevin C. Tofel

Kevin C. Tofel — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:45:34 +0000

Both points well taken, but notebook specs vary wildly. Microsoft didn’t say that these numbers were for an Intel Atom netbook, nor for a unit with an LED backlit display. The point here isn’t to identify the exact power draws, but to provide a useful, general idea.

By: EngineDavey

EngineDavey — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:37:33 +0000

i gatta be honest, why am i not surprised when MS releases something it lacks detail & is completely wrong?

10″ Atom LED HDD based netbooks

screen – 3w max
CPU – 2.5w max
chipset – ??? max
HDD – 2w max

these are all factual not subjective & EXTREMELY easy to fact check on your own. i’m not sure what screwy netbook MS was using but it isnt the most common 1 that i listed.

By: Deluthe

Deluthe — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 20:25:09 +0000

hopefully we get alot of feedback on this, but these numbers are just flatout wrong.

most netbook LED backlit displays use no more than 3w at full brightness. only way their numbers make sense it it is CCFL instead of LED

the CPU/chipset consumes more than LED backlit displays

most HDD at full speed consume around 2w which is much higher than 8%