Posted on Saturday, June 04 2011 @ 0:03 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Phoronix has more Linux power tests
over here.
"With the extensive Linux power consumption tests that I've
been carrying out to solve some nasty Linux kernel power regressions and
find other areas for optimization, one of the requests that has come in
frequently is to compare the power consumption of the KDE, GNOME, Unity,
Xfce, and LXDE desktops. After the article earlier this week to look at
how the desktop environments / compositing window managers affect OpenGL
performance, I carried out a quick desktop power test. In this article
are battery power consumption results for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and
Lubuntu."
