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- Subject: Re: powerbook battery lif
- Message-ID: <zaphod-080992144913@gregt.winona.msus.edu>
- From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
- Date: 8 Sep 92 14:52:14 -0600
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- In article <1992Sep7.1164.13909@channel1>, "joseph france"
- <joseph.france@channel1.com> wrote:
- >
- > GT>...the projected life span for the Apple batteries is only about a
- > GT>year...
- >
- > Wolfson's "Powerbook Companion" indicates that they will last through
- > about 500 charges. Under normal usage, this should last more than one
- > year, don't you agree?
- >
- > GT>With this [LED's Conditioner] I've been able to get 2 - 2.5 hours of
- > GT>useful time on a PB 170 with 2Mb of RAM and 10MB of virtual memory
- > GT>running MS Word 4.0.
- >
- > That's pretty incredible for what should be a lot of disk accesses. How
- > do you light the screen? :)
- >
-
- The screen is lit by the onboard back-lighting, at it's lowest level. I
- think that by my using Spin-D to spin down the drive when it is not
- used,and only entering text, not doing heavy formatting or tables, and
- having Word load itself and the document into memory, is a contributing
- factor to by extended battery life. (it doesn't hurt that it gets put to
- sellp a lot also.)
-
-
- - Greg Talmo (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
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