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.TH POWERTOP 1 "May 12, 2007"
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.SH NAME
powertop \- program to analyze power consumption on Intel-based laptops
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B powertop
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B powertop
commands.
.PP
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\fBpowertop\fP is a program that shows the power consumption on Intel-based
laptops and makes suggestions on how to extend battery lifetime.
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The program is more fully described at http://www.linuxpowertop.org
.SH AUTHOR
powertop was written by Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>.
.PP
This manual page was written by Carlo Segre <segre@debian.org>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).