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- From: gt9351c@prism.gatech.EDU (The Chowmeister)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: T1000SE... is it alright to keep it plugged in all the time?
- Message-ID: <67262@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 30 Aug 92 21:18:52 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.205636.13810@ns.network.com> <1992Aug28.235936.5475@news2.cis.umn.edu> <14425@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- .In article <14425@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o) writes:
- .>In article <1992Aug28.235936.5475@news2.cis.umn.edu> kritchie@mail1.cis.umn.edu (Kent C Ritchie) writes:
- .>>About the memory slots... who knows? I was wondering though... how much
- .>>juice does that 2Mb card suck? I was thinking of getting one, but with a
- .>>modem I thought it might shorten my run time under 2 hrs.
- .>
- .> I once measured the total drain of a T1000SE with 2Mb installed and
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- that was what measured too..
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- .>it came to 8ma. The battery is rated at 1700ma-hr, which comes to 8.9 days.
- .>That matches well with my experience that it lasts about 8-9 days. Without
- .>the 2Mb card, the battery lasts about 2 weeks.
- .> So, as far as shortening the 2 hour running time, the 2Mb has virtually
- .>zero impact. The modem draw 50ma idling and 150ma when on-line. The total draw
- .>of the machine varies from 400ma to over 1A (when floppy is on), so the extra
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- yes it is from .4A to over 1A, but the low end depends on what level
- your brightness is on. also, if you call up the toshiba BBS.. you can get
- a screen saver that shuts off you lcd totally... or just the backlight..
- instantly, or after a certian time... with the backlight off (like when you
- are in broad daylight - theres no difference) you have a .26A draw w/o the
- disk drive. and with the lcd totally shut off it read about .25A.
- these readings reflect with a 2meg card installed...
-
- .>3ma that the 2Mb draws is nothing.
- .> Personally, since the 2Mb cards for the T1000SE are so cheap these
- .>days ($150 or less) I can't imagine using the T1000SE without one. It is so
- .>much more of a machine with it, can run Windows, Word, etc all without floppy
- .>access.
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- yeah, i wonder if one can get an 8 meg card for it...
- also, windows 3.1 does not run on the tosh... :)
- chow
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