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    Tips to prolong your battery life

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by CeeNote, Jul 1, 2008.

  1. CeeNote

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    Useful, but I felt that this recommendation was unrealistic:
    80F (=27C) is not particularly hot.

    Here is another useful thread on this subject.

    Also, to me, "battery life" really means the time before you need to replace it because it won't hold a useful charge. I usually refer to task of maximising the operating hours as "battery run time".

    John
     
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    Well the article is talking about both, battery run time and the actual batter life.
     
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    I tend to agree with John. And his points. I will say I was intrigued by the part about turning off ports and all. I mean I can set up profiles and all? That was a tip. Although like most of these things kind of anal and all. The guide not the poster.
     
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    Good reference. Thanks for the link :)
     
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    Anyone here familiar with that SparkleXP thing? I tried it; it allows you to choose its hardware profile or the default at startup but documentation is lacklustre. The only changes I can tell thus far in its profile is that it defaults to its own custom theme that looks similar to Windows Classic, and that it doesn't play DRM-protected music at all.

    This hardware profiles stuff does seem interesting...but I'm not sure SparkleXP is the way to go, though I could of course be missing something.

    My favorite unorthodox power-saving technique is disabling the fans with I8Kfangui up until about 70 celsius - although it does result in higher temperatures, and if CPU use does spike it's likely to send the fan into High rather than just Low. Not sure exactly how much power it saves though.
     
    Apollo13, Jul 2, 2008
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