Title :
ThinkPad low-power evolution
Author_Institution :
APTO, IBM Japan Ltd., Japan
Abstract :
Over the last three years ThinkPad development has both significantly reduced power consumption and increased battery capacity. This paper will examine three generations of ThinkPad computers and show how the reduced power consumption has been achieved by technology improvement and better understanding customer usage.
Keywords :
IBM computers; notebook computers; ThinkPad computers; battery capacity; low-power electronics; power consumption; Battery management systems; Central Processing Unit; Costs; Energy consumption; Energy management; Logic; Power distribution; Power generation; Power system management; Power system reliability;
Conference_Titel :
Low Power Electronics, 1995., IEEE Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA, USA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-3036-6
DOI :
10.1109/LPE.1995.482409
