battery life

[Brent Harding]

It is, however a lot easier, in a work situation to have something that'll
last longer than 3 hours. A lot of places, especially ones crowded with a
lot of machines, there's so many cords around you can't find a place to
plug both a synth and a laptop in. Especially if you have to move around to
hook up to different machines, the cords get in the way, especially that
the synth can't even be given a spare battery without taking it apart.
At 07:37 AM 9/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>There are a number of things that will cut down on your usable battery
>life. The guess that the UART uses more power when active is correct. Also
>any sounds you have enabled cut down life. Hard disk usage does. If you
>can cause you screen to blank out it will save a lot of power. Also eject
>any and all PCMCIA cards you don't actually need at the time. (They
>consume power even when not in use.)
>
>If you really feel a need to run 24 hours on a charge, I have several
>suggestions.
>
>1. Make the processor run as slow as you can. Speed is the enemy.
>2. Get as much memory as needed to avoid the hard drive.
>3. Prepare to lug around either spare batteries or a huge single one.
>
>If you are carrying this around, I think you would be better off planning
>an 8 hour life span and have two batteries if needed. If your actually
>using your computer for more then 8 hours in the day chances are there is
>a power source you can tap. Consider that we have electricity in the house
>because it is cheaper and more convenient then having the number of
>batteries needed to swap them out. It is not because cords are cool.
>
>-- 
>Kirk Wood
>Cpt.Kirk at 1tree.net
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