User's Manual

3-10 Managing Power
Power-Saving Tips
In addition to your computer’ s automatic power management, you can do
your part to maximize the battery’ s operating time by following these
suggestions.
l Do not disable Power Management.
l Decrease the LCD brightness to the lowest comfortable level.
l Disable the parallel and serial ports if no devices are connected to
these ports. (See “Advanced Menu” in Chapter 5.)
l If you work with an application that uses the serial port or a PC card,
exit the application when you finish using it.
l If you have a PC card installed, remove it when not in use. Some PC
cards drain power even while they are inactive.
l Turn off the computer when you are not using it.