Comment 19 for bug 131983

regardless if you run out of batteries or not, it is, at least in most cases,
stupid to let a background daemon take most of the computers internal
bandwidth. I am running this on my desktop machine and it is almost
useless for several hours after logging into the system. As I sure am
a geek and I know how to kick my way around my system with a few
well deserved kill commands this is certainly not a big issue for me.
But for any of those ordinary people that Ubuntu is supposed to serve,
this is a big put of.

hence this should not be considered a laptop only issue but a
general usability issue for ubuntu regardless if you are running
it in a server room, on a desktop or on the go.