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    New Power Manager

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by acaurora, Jul 15, 2007.

  1. acaurora

    acaurora Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    So I was looking at my T60 Update RSS Feed and noticed a new Power Manager / ACPI Power Management Driver. So I download it and install both of them ... to be honest I dont think I really am noticing anything different... the only real big change I can tell is that now instead of it saying "Battery Life" as the bottom of all the "bars" you see when you first open up your Power Manager, it now says "Power Usage"... definately interesting. Also, CPU Speed has been changed to Performance. I think they also changed some of the methodologies to determine how *much* the bars get full - as they just look like they have changed (meaning that like, say, what I think my Fan Sound level used to be 3 blocks is now 2 blocks). Enjoy! ;)

    Sadly, I still dont know why my HDD always seems to be active *just barely* enough to prevent it from spinning down T.T... even when I just turn it on and let it sit there.
     
    acaurora, Jul 15, 2007
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