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Managing Power Consumption

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Traveling with Your Computer Managing Power Consumption Managing Power Consumption When you are not using your computer, you will want to maximize battery operating time without compromising performance. It is not necessary to turn the computer off in order to reduce power consumption and extend battery life. Advanced Power Management (APM) provides both manual and automated tools for reducing power consumption. • Power management options may be invoked manually at any time by pressing the appropriate key. See "To use manual power management." • Power management options can also be set to occur automatically, based on timeout values that you have entered. See "To use automated power management" in the electronic User's Guide. To use manual power management You can shut down your computer manually whenever you need to with any of the following three levels of shutdown. System standby Action When Resume Turns off the display and hard disk drive. Saves current session to RAM. Fn+F3 or Fn+F4 or Start, Shut Down, Standby. Press the blue power button to return to your current session. System standby can also occur automatically when the timeout setting in the Power Management Properties window is reached. 38 Setup Guide

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Traveling with Your Computer
Managing Power Consumption
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Setup Guide
Managing Power Consumption
When you are not using your computer, you will want to maximize battery operating
time without compromising performance. It is not necessary to turn the computer off in
order to reduce power consumption and extend battery life.
Advanced Power Management (APM) provides both manual and automated tools for
reducing power consumption.
•
Power management options may be invoked manually at any time by pressing the
appropriate key. See “To use manual power management.”
•
Power management options can also be set to occur automatically, based on timeout
values that you have entered. See “To use automated power management” in the
electronic
User's Guide.
To use manual power management
You can shut down your computer manually whenever you need to with any of the
following three levels of shutdown.
System standby
Action
Turns off the display and hard disk drive.
Saves current session to RAM.
When
Fn+F3 or Fn+F4 or Start, Shut Down,
Standby.
Resume
Press the blue power button to return to
your current session.
System standby can also occur automatically when the timeout setting in the Power
Management Properties window is reached.