PowerTOP - Check power consumption on Intel CPU’s

Published

on October 3, 2007

I came across this little tool, which displays me many interesting information about power consumption on notebooks with an Intel mobile processor.
It will tell you how often the CPU is woken up per second and gives you suggestions on how you can improve it.

You can install it under Gutsy, don't think it will be possible on a default feisty setup, with
sudo apt-get install powertop
and start with
sudo powertop