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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Battery Life

March 10, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the battery life of the laptop in more detail. The 16″ model of the laptop has a 60Wh battery.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Power Consumption

March 5, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

For this article in the series, I’m looking at the power consumption of the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus

Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: BIOS

March 2, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I take a look at the laptop’s BIOS.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Benchmarks

February 26, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

I run a series of benchmarks on the newly released Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus. It’s a very capable laptop.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Specifications

February 24, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at the Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux. I grill the laptop using the inxi tool.

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Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus running Linux: Hardware Review

February 23, 2026 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

The Chuwi CoreBook Air Plus positions itself as a lightweight, mid-range productivity machine that blends premium materials with good performance.

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powerstat – measures the power consumption of a laptop

January 8, 2026 Steve Emms CLI, System Software

Powerstat measures the power consumption of a laptop using the ACPI battery information.

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kbd-backlight – intelligent keyboard backlight daemon

November 30, 2025 Steve Emms Utilities

kbd-backlight is an intelligent keyboard backlight daemon for Linux laptops with automatic brightness control

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Benchmarking the HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop in Linux

November 25, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

I put a refurbished HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop through a series of benchmarks comparing it to other machines.

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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Specifications in detail

November 20, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

Let’s look at the specifications of the laptop in more detail. I’ll use a popular system profiler, inxi, to help delve into the laptop’s specs.

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RogPerfTuner – utility to manage Asus ROG laptop performance and RGB lighting

November 19, 2025 Steve Emms GUI, Utilities

RogPerfTuner is here to simplify your life and help you enjoy gaming on your Asus ROG laptop once and for all.

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HP ProBook 440 G8 Laptop running Linux: Introduction to the Series

November 18, 2025 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Laptops, Reviews

This is a new series looking at running Linux on a refurbished HP laptop.

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system76-power – utility for managing graphics and power profiles

November 19, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

system76-power offers power profile management for Linux.

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asusctl – control aspects of ASUS laptops

November 15, 2024 Steve Emms System Software

asusctl is a control daemon, CLI tools, and a collection of crates for interacting with ASUS ROG laptops and other laptops.

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battery-wallpaper – script to set wallpaper according to battery percentage

November 9, 2024 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

battery-wallpaper is a bash script to set an animated battery as desktop wallpaper showing charging animation.

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Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook running Linux – Part 3 – Installing Manjaro

December 5, 2022 Steve Emms Blog, Hardware, Reviews

This is a blog looking at a refurbished Lenovo ThinkPad T470 Ultrabook. We take you through installing Manjaro on the T470

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System Administration

Essential System Tools: TLP – power management package

November 11, 2019 Steve Emms Reviews, Software, System Software

If you use Linux on a notebook, TLP is for you. It saves laptop battery power with a wide variety of features. There’s processor frequency scaling, Wifi power saving, hard disk advanced power management, GPU power management and much more.

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