I'm sure a lot of people out there have had difficulties when it somes to power management control for laptops. We need to create a solution to this problem.
Any takers for this one?

I do own a laptop, but in the whole 5 years i have been using it i never experienced any power-related issues.

It is a Fujitsu-siemens Lifebook E Series 4010D, and for me it became a living embodiment of laptop reliability.

I don't know much about power systems for laptops, but i can vouch for something that worked for me through my whole college and early work years (and still works as home media center).

Link with specs:
http://www.ciao.co.uk/Fujitsu_Siemens_LifeBook_E4010D__5822252

I have experienced a notebook power-related problem, which would prompt me to add a feature request.

The problem is battery memory. One of my notebooks drastically cut its recharge battery run time from 4-5 hours to 20-30 minutes in a matter of days of improper use.

This brings me to a feature I would love to have in my notebook. I would love for it to stop charging the battery whenever it becomes full, but inmediatly return to suplying power once the power is cut without warning.

This will let people use their notebook on AC while there is power, but return to battery once power is cut (blackooff, someone trips over cord, etc).

This would turn a notebook's battery into a builtin UPS. We could add one to our desktop's and servers too as a differentiating point.

Marvelous Idea

That could be an optional extra.

I am experiencing an issue at the moment with trying to play Caesar IV on a IBM T43P. It appears to be that the game requires the video card to draw so much power that the computer goes into a hard lock and freezes. This could also be a heat problem but it seems others have experienced this sort of problem with desktops with unsuitable psu's.

So I think that we should be able to turn on and off different features when they are not required, like turning off the wireless, but with a broader range or devices.

Though if it was properly tried and tested at the time this wouldn't be an issue. So the best course would be to just make sure that it could run all the devices at peak for extended amounts of time without a) over heating and b) failing due to lack of power.

I read of one guy who is having issues with Dell because they supplied a 305w max output power supply with an x1300 video card, which according to ATI requires a minimum of 350w and that is most likely constant output, not max.