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Switchable GPU and Battery drain on an HP ProBook 4530s

I have HP ProBook 4530s. In Windows 7 after installing all HP drivers the 6-Cell battery works perfectly for 2+ hours but in Ubuntu 12.10 and now in 13.04 the battery time is not sufficient. It works ...
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fan noise and high battery consumption with AMD hybrid graphics

as described here dell 7520 (inspiron 15R SE), fan on full speed on 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, i still have problems with my energy comsumption and fan noise under ubuntu 13.04. i could reduce it to a ...
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Low battery life on ubuntu 13.04 [duplicate]

Config: laptop MSI CR650 - 229XBY AMD E-450 Radeon HD 6320 (512mb) - Proprietary driver HDD: 500Gb OS: Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 (x64) and Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail (x64) Steps: 1.Clear Install ...
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High discharge rate, Ubuntu 13.4 gnome 3.6 [duplicate]

I have Dell Inspiron N5010 Core i5 with ATI Radeon 5xxx and 4 GB RAM I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 and updated to gnome 3.6 then updated to Ubuntu 13.4 And I'm using the default driver ...
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Why does my computer go blank after plugging it in?

After permanently switching to Integrated Graphics (Intel) my computer will just have a black screen when I plug it in but it works fine on battery or if it was plugged in when I turned it on. In ...
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Installed Ubuntu 12.04 on my laptop, Cpu usage is spiking, system is slow and the battery consuption is high [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Ubuntu 11 and 12 initially fast but later bogs down, CPU pegged My laptop is an E-machines E430, AMD Sempron processor M100,1 GB Ram, 160 GB Harddisk (140+40Swap). This ...
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Can't suspend on Acer Aspire One 722 using proprietary AMD drivers

I have an Acer Aspire One 722 netbook with a C60 CPU and a ATI Radeon™ HD 6250 GPU. I am trying to decrease the power usage and have tried Jupiter and Powertop, but the lowest power usage has been by ...
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How do I fix overheating and short battery life?

I am using a VAIO VPCEA23EN with an ATI Radeon HD 5145 graphics card. I have 3 GB RAM and a Core i3 2,26 GHz processor. My laptop gets very hot very quickly. Battery life is also much shorter than ...
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AMD Radeon HD 4250 - Fan noise and driver choice

I have the Asus Eee-pc 1015T - this is an AMD based netbook and it comes with a great AMD Radeon HD 4250 vga. With Windows 7 it can play 1080p HD video smoothly and during normal usage the average ...