Where you laptop's power goes....

**WarDriver** · 01-09-2009, 01:41 PM

The image below was produced by MS Windows 7 engineers to proportionally show where the average laptop uses its energy.

I thought I'd share.

**mcoutlawz** · 01-13-2009, 07:33 AM

Interesting. Thanks. The chip set takes more than I thought. I wonder if the networking includes wifi cards? With my windows mobile phone if I turn wifi on it kills the battery pretty quick. So I would have thought wifi is a significant proportion of the energy used.

**jpinkerton** · 01-21-2009, 10:50 PM

I'm guessing network is ethernet, I'd imagine WiFi uses more as I have the same issues as you, WiFi drains the phone.

**mcoutlawz** · 01-22-2009, 04:24 AM

This is very helpful, but it is does not facilitate wifi cards, which I expect would take a good propertion of the pie chart (I'd say between 10 - 15%)