Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 21:16:30 -0500 From: "John Musielewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 100CT battery life
> > > >I was looking at a 100CT which was overclocked to 233 MHz and the owner > >claimed that on the extended battery with no power savings- i.e. display at > >full brightness, cpu at full bore, hard drive on, he was getting over 4 > >hours of battery life. Was he talking baloney or does the 100CT get such an > >awesome life. Does this mean the 100CT gets over 5 hours if power saving is > >used and if it isn't overclocked? > > Sounds on the high side of reasonable to me ... still possible with a brand > new battery though I guess ... > > Bear in mind though that whilst 'power saving' DOES save power, it won't > save the 25% you're looking for ... the difference in runtime on my L100 > between full power saving (everything dimmed, etc.) and no power saving, > running the same test (playing MP3s in a loop) was about 5-10 minutes (out > of a total battery life of just under 2 hours with a 3 year old extended > battery). Of course, if you actually let the HDD spin down and whatnot then > you may get slightly better results (but if you were worried about battery > life, wouldn't you suspend it if you were going to leave it for long enough > such that spinning down the hard drive would make a difference?) .. I always set my hard drive to spin down after a minute. I haven't figured out yet how to set the standby timeout to less than 10 minutes. I'd like to set it to about 5. The display/backlight, cpu and hard drive are the main power drains. John ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
