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Managing Power Consumption
38 Setup Guide
Managing Power Consumption
When you are not using your computer, you will want to maximize battery operating
time without compromising performance. It is not necessary to turn the computer off in
order to reduce power consumption and extend battery life.
Advanced Power Management (APM) provides both manual and automated tools for
reducing power consumption.
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Power management options may be invoked manually at any time by pressing the
appropriate key. See “To use manual power management.”
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Power management options can also be set to occur automatically, based on timeout
values that you have entered. See “To use automated power management” in the
electronic
User's Guide.
To use manual power management
You can shut down your computer manually whenever you need to with any of the
following three levels of shutdown.
System standby
Action Turns off the display and hard disk drive.
Saves current session to RAM.
When Fn+F3 or Fn+F4 or Start, Shut Down,
Standby.
Resume Press the blue power button to return to
your current session.
System standby can also occur automatically when the timeout setting in the Power
Management Properties window is reached.