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
600E PIII/450	Archlinux 0.8/xfce		8W
T41p	Ubuntu 7.04	Undervolted, fglrx, no dri	8.3W
T43 (2669)	Gentoo (2.6.20-gentoo-r5)	Undervolted, fglrx (powerstate=1), DRI, no alsa, no usb modules, no networking	12.7W