A quick note to say that I’ve just run the Vega playing audio with the screen off for 7 hours and 10 minutes.
Actually, I think it would have been much longer as I found out in the last hours that the Winamp graphic equalizer was processing the audio. That takes over 30% of the CPU on the Vega. Without it, the CPU was down at 5%.
Average battery drain was about 5Watts. 3 Watts less than with the screen on and +20% CPU util. I suspect that the screen is LED backlit now.
If we assume I could have saved 0.5Watt if I’d remembered to turn of the EQ on Winamp, were talking about over 7.5 hours audio.
There ends the Vega testing. Not least because the Flybook has just arrived! It’s going to be another fun weekend.
Steve / Chippy
tags: vega, umpc
