Caring for Your Battery
Power Management
SDid you know... Notebooks have power-saving features that protect your data and conserve battery and monitor life.
What Is Power Management?
This section explains the following main topics:
■Understanding Power Management
■Starting and Ending Power Modes
Understanding Power Management
Power management lets you reduce your Notebook power consumption. Your Notebook has two power management modes:
■Hibernation is an energy-saving feature and safeguard that saves information to the hard drive, then turns off your Notebook. When you resume from Hibernation, your information returns to the screen where you were previously working. Your Notebook hibernates when the Power button is pressed, when the battery has little power left, or when your Notebook (operating on battery power) is in Sleep mode for more than one hour.
■Sleep, also called Standby, is an energy-saving feature that reduces power to system components that are not being used. When Sleep is initiated, your information is saved in Random Access Memory (RAM), and the screen is cleared. Your Notebook is still on, but the display is blank. When you resume from Suspend, your information returns to the screen where you were previously working.
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