Comment Comment by csdvrx Interestingly enough, disabling cursor blinks on the intel 950 iGPUs resulted in increased powersaving: https://lwn.net/Articles/317922/ and http://tuxdiary.com/2015/09/29/save-battery-intel-linux/A few years later, I checked that with powertop when I was using my thinkpad in uni and it was true and measurable!I'm not sure if it's still the case, but it's funny how UI features can tax the power budget in unsuspected ways. parent csdvrx 4 years ago
A few years later, I checked that with powertop when I was using my thinkpad in uni and it was true and measurable!
I'm not sure if it's still the case, but it's funny how UI features can tax the power budget in unsuspected ways.