From: Randy Whittle (whittle_at_usc.edu)
Date: Wed May 01 1996 - 22:59:56 EDT
At 9:23 PM 5/1/96, Pekka(la) wrote:
>After following discussion on this list for a month now, I'm just wondering
>if there is TP701C/CS users who have the NiMh battery. How long can you work
>with it? I've used to 3+ hours with my current laptop without any power
>management, so the less than 2 hours promised for 701's NiCd battery doesn't
>sound very good.
I get 2:30 with non-stop use. I don't believe in this 8 hour crap
because nobody just types for 2 minutes and then lets the machine sit in
suspend for 2 hours, types for another 10 minutes and calls it "2 hours and
12 minutes of run time".
>One more question. Can you adjust the speed of the procesor as a part of the
>power management system? And does it work properly, since the APM seems to
>be more or less unstabile in most laptops. Screen won't blank every time it
>should, computer doesn't hibernate/go to standby always, HD doesn't spin
>down etc. problems.
Mine seems to work quite perfectly to the settings I tell it to.
One thing I like is the processor speed function--runs full bore when
you're doing stuff, cuts down to zilch when you're not. Never did like the
idea of running a 33 MHz processor at 8 MHz--like the idea even less with a
75 MHz processor.
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Randy Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu http://www-scf.usc.edu/~whittle
USC Graduate School of Business
Women often ask, "What do men really want, deep in their souls?"
The best answer--based on in-depth analysis of the complex and subtle
interplay of thought, instinct, and emotion that constitutes the male psyche
--is that deep in their souls, men want to watch stuff go 'bang'.
- Dave Barry, October 2, 1994
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