Re: Laptop Battery Usage

From: Satish Balay (balay_at_fastmail.fm)
Date: 11/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:41:48 -0600 (CST)
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    On Tue, 30 Nov 2004, Terry R. Grier wrote:

    > I might be crazy... but as an ex-windows(xp) user with this laptop
    > Last night .. I used the laptop with battery and it appeared that I got almost
    > an extra hour of it.
    >
    > Does Fedora have anything to do with it ? is that possible.. or ... I am just
    > crazy or got lucky?

    One way this can happen is - speedstep is turned off in XP - but not
    in Fedora ( i.e - you have set it to 'Max power' mode in XP).

    Satish

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