Re: 701CS Battery life?

[whittle@usc.edu (Randy Whittle)]

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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