Hi,
Laptop is up and running and was briefly powered from the solar-charged battery this evening and was drawing ~21W from the battery running something near a real load (ie not completely idle), which is very respectable I think. (My aim is to get to 20W or below unless there's lots of extra power available.)
I have an Ubuntu "Feity Fawn" release with laptop-mode and cpufreqd, with the kernel upgraded to the latest-available Gutsy version, which gets me the tickless clock and a few other power-saving features.
I'm keeping an eye on what might be wasting power with PowerTop.
(I'm not posting a link since my ISP managed to drop my DSL connection today, and it'll be tomorrow before it's fixed.)
Rgds
Damon
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