Apple 145 manual Adjusting the battery conservation settings, Easiest approach

Adjusting the battery conservation settings

The Battery Conservation section of the PowerBook control panel gives you several ways to regulate your computer’s power consumption.

The easiest approach

Just use the Battery Conservation slider to choose the setting you prefer.

1.Choose Control Panels from the Apple (K) menu, and open the PowerBook control panel.

2.In the Battery Conservation box, drag the slider to the setting you want.

There are four settings along the scale. If you’re trying to meet a deadline, Maximum Performance allows you to work with the fewest interruptions. If you don’t have a power adapter with you, Maximum Conservation gives you the longest work time.

When you change the setting, the new setting takes effect immediately.

3. Close the PowerBook control panel.

You can think of the battery conservation setting as an automatic sleep setting. If you don’t use the computer for several minutes (how many depends on which setting you choose), it goes to sleep without any action on your part. A computer in sleep has a darkened screen and appears to be off, though it is still drawing battery power at a low level.

To put the computer to sleep before the automatic sleep setting takes effect, choose Sleep from the Special menu.

To wake the computer from sleep, press any key (except Caps Lock).

Automatic sleep does not take effect under any of the following circumstances:

mThe AppleTalk software is turned on in the Chooser and the power adapter is plugged in. (Automatic sleep does take effect if the power adapter is not plugged in.)

mYour computer is connected to a shared disk on the network.

mYour computer’s printer or modem port is in use.

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