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I decided to give Ubuntu a chance on my laptop (actually, it's a netbook). This netbook is capable of 7 hours battery life on Windows 7 and I only get around 3 hours with Ubuntu. I'm a newbie, but I think that the default power management in Ubuntu is no good.

So, my question is, what's the best way to optimize Ubuntu to get as much battery as I can?

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    What version of ubuntu? what graphics card do you have? Are you using any additional graphics drivers? Do you use any special grub boot options?
    – fossfreedom ♦
    Sep 30, 2011 at 18:04
  • @Matjaž Finžgar Your brand and model of netbook would be useful as well, so we can look up its complete specs.
    – Knowledge Cube
    Nov 7, 2011 at 5:32
  • This question should instead be filed as a bug report, and as such is off-topic, thanks! Instructions here.
    – Bruno Pereira
    Mar 4, 2012 at 10:08

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Try powertop.

  1. Install it.
  2. Open a terminal and run it.

See http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/09/reduce-power-usage-with-powertop/ for details.

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check this http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_battery_life&num=1

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    That looks like an interesting article, but do you think you could edit some of the main suggestions back into your question so we can avoid potential linkrot issues? Thanks!
    – Knowledge Cube
    Nov 7, 2011 at 5:35

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