So your last part about disk. Does waking up from those screen and hdd settings have a negative impact on battery? That is, if you are continually giggling the track pad to "wake" it up, is that worse than just leaving it run for a bit? Similarly, does coming out of Sleep hit the battery?
Dell put out a document about battery life. The single biggest factor was screen. Next (I think) was network adapters. What about services? Are there services to disable to improve battery run time? -- nme -----Original Message----- From: Williams, Chris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 6:08 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life The Dell D600 and D610 have a network adaptor power setting where you can tell it to disable a network adaptor if it is not live when on battery, this may help extend your battery life a bit more. We use both these models and even using the internal wireless card we still get 3.5 to 4 hours out of a battery. Our power settings are wound right down so for example the screen powers off after 1min, HDD after 5min etc. Regards -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Parris Sent: 13 December 2006 08:32 To: ActiveDir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life I also read a blog this week that Vista's default Wifi configuration is set in such a way that if the wifi hotspots don't support this Vista mode - it will drain the battery pretty quick. This leads me to ask do you have any power draining features turned on or inserted? Powersave set on Disk, screen, do you have an external mouse or PCMCIA/Express cards? Regards, Mark Parris Base IT Ltd Active Directory Consultancy Tel +44(0)7801 690596 -----Original Message----- From: "Molkentin, Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 14:13:22 To:<ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org> Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life I find not using mine gives me almost unlimited hours use. themolk. ---------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jackson Shaw Sent: Wednesday, 13 December 2006 1:57 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life Even removing the CD/DVD ROM drive during flight helps. I had the media bay battery that Brian mentions below and it made a huge difference. Subsequently, I have moved to an IBM X60 and with the standard battery in “maximize battery life” mode I usual get 9 hours. Also, don’t forget to turn your screen brightness down as much as possible – it makes a huge difference. ---------------- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Desmond Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 7:49 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life I have this model too. Kill the Wifi and Bluetooth for starters. Wifi is Fn+F2 I think. Next, get a media bay battery from Dell – it can give you several (up to 4) more hours in my experience. I go through batteries pretty quickly – I think I killed the media bay battery (or at met its half life) in about 6 months. A combination of desk work and being mobile does this because of the uneven discharge/charge cycles. You can either be real meticulous about taking care of the batteries or start hitting your IT department up for new ones. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah Eiger Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:33 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life Hi – When I travel with my standard issue Dell D600 (1.5GB RAM), I get maybe two hours out of a fully charged battery while doing standard Word, Excel, Outlook stuff. Throw in Visio or (ugh) Quickbooks and cut that time in half. Sometimes, I try to disable services that I know I will not need on the plane (does antivirus really need to autoprotect on the plane?), but I can’t tell you that this actually gives me any more battery. Any recommendations for battery-life extending tricks, tools, services to disable, etc? Greatly appreciated as I head across the country for the late December boogie. Thanks. -- nme -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. 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