Conserving battery power – Texas Instruments TravelMate 2000 User Manual
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Conserving Battery Power
With a little care, you can maximize the time that your TravelMate 2000 will operate on a single battery
charge. The following tips will enable you to run your computer for the longest possible time on battery
power.
Keep the illumination of the LCD screen at the lowest comfortable brightness level.
Use the hard disk Power Saving function on the Set Up screen to ensure that the hard disk is
not powered for long periods when it is not being accessed. But bear in mind that if the
HDD Motor Off period is too short, this will drastically increase hard disk access time,
since the drive motor takes several seconds to power up before disk accesses.
You can choose between three CPU speeds: 12 Mhz, 7.16 MHz and 6 MHz. The lower the
CPU speed, the less power the computer uses. When using an application which is not
CPU-intensive, (for instance, many word processing programs) set the CPU speed to the
lowest setting on the Hardware Installation screen.
The fewer options that are connected to the computer, the lower the power consumption.
Note, however, that printers and external monitors do not get their power from the
TravelMate 2000, and so have no effect on power consumption. A numeric keypad, an
external keyboard, or an external floppy drive unit will drain the battery quickly, so we
recommend running the TravelMate 2000 with the AC Adaptor when using any of these
devices.
Refer to your BatteryPro and Productivity Software User's Manual for more information
on conserving battery power.
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