On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 10:13, Terry R. Grier wrote: > I might be crazy... but as an ex-windows(xp) user with this laptop > Last night .. I used the laptop with battery and it appeared that I got > almost an extra hour of it. > > Does Fedora have anything to do with it ? is that possible.. or ... I > am just crazy or got lucky? > > Thanks > T Your crazy. :) Battery life depends on a number of things. How old is the battery? Do you regularly use it until it is discharged or do you keep it in a docking station or on AC power all the time? Does your laptop utilize speedstep to adjust CPU speed, fan speed, etc.? Do drive the CPU at 100% all the time using setiathome or something similar? Do you have apm or acpi enabled? All of these things will vary how long a battery will last. I routinely run my laptop on battery alone until it down to 15 or 12 % before plugging in the AC power. This keeps the battery from getting a memory and degrading. I originally kept the laptop in a docking station almost all the time. That battery quickly was reduced to a run time of less than 30 minutes. The new battery I routinely get 2.5 to 3 hours of run time and have for close to a year now. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation.
