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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 08 2013 @ 08:30 AM EDT |
As for the display being half as bright, bringing the brightness of the screen
down by 70 percent seems to make my laptop with an LCD screen backlit by LED's
use about 1 watt less power. For comparisons sake with nothing open except the
app that came with it to monitor power it uses 12-14 watts of power. Opening up
Firefox made it range from consuming 12-15 watts of power, and if I had to take
a guess less then 1 extra watt on average (All testing done on the lowest
brightness setting and purely unscientifically).
As for the amount of power going to routing the traffic, that is a really
interesting point. I wouldn't be at all surprised if wifi consumed a lot of
power, unfortunately I have no good way to test. Now I'm them thinking that the
best way to minimize energy might be to use Opera's compression thingy (turbo),
and make an addon like turn out the lights that just lowers the brightness of
everything. Unfortunately there is no way to do this without add ons because
Opera is closed source, well no way as far as I know.
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