Comment 194 for bug 524281

That script looks useful, thanks for posting it.

I've all turned round on the subject. I ran Ubuntu Classic (no effects) and ran powertop with no apps running. It was significantly better than in Ubuntu 10.10. It was actually really good. The red bar in powertop that shows wakeups-from-idle per second, well I found out it is not always red! It was orange for the first time.

I'll just avoid using Unity, which givers my processor a hard time anyway.