Idle consumptions
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).
This kind of information has several uses: comparing one's consumption with other that of other people's setups, knowing which model to use as a gateway/file server, etc.
Model | OS | Remarks | consumption |
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600E PIII/450 | Archlinux 0.8/xfce | 8W | |
T41p | Ubuntu 7.04 | 8.3W |