Apple Duo 270C manual Adjusting the battery conservation settings, Easiest approach

Adjusting the battery conservation settings

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.

The PowerBook control panels opens in Easy View. You can also choose Custom View for more detailed options. For a description of Custom view, see the next page.

2.Drag the slider to the setting you want.

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

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 or close the display.

To wake the computer from sleep, press the Power On key or any key on the keyboard (except Caps Lock).

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

nYou are using your computer in the Duo Dock.

nYou connected to the Duo MiniDock with an external monitor attached.

nThe 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.)

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

nYour computer’s printer/modem port is in use.

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