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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Path: sparky!uunet!stanford.edu!leland.Stanford.EDU!news
- From: avery@ccrma.stanford.edu (Avery Wang)
- Subject: How is the battery life with screen illumination turned off?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.051627.24543@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 92 05:16:27 GMT
- Lines: 16
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- Hi-
-
- I've been shopping around and am slightly discouraged at the low battery life
- ratings I've been seeing. Typically it's about 2-4 hours under "normal"
- usage. Acceptable would be about 8-10 hours (I want to be able to go to the
- moon and back with a single charge!). I've asked around a little, but nobody
- seems to know how long the battery life is if the you turn off the screen and
- just do word processing with lots of pauses for thought. Good power
- management should be smart enough to slow down the clock when I'm not typing
- or doing anything.
-
- So does anyone have any idea what the proportion of the system power goes to
- the screen lighting?
-
- Thanks,
- -Avery
-