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User Handbook
The battery icon, located on the task bar at the lower right-
hand side of your screen, provides useful information. Dou-
ble click to get battery information.

Tips

þDecrease LCD brightness to conserve battery power.
þPut the computer into suspend mode [ close lid ] if you need to take
a quick break.
Power Management

Power Saving Modes

The ThinkPad provides three power saving modes which are recom-
mended for when the system is not in use. The system enters standby or
suspend automatically when the system is not used for the time set by the
timer.

Standby

• to use standby, press Fn + F3 keys
• press the spacebar to resume
normal operation

Suspend

Use suspend when you are not using the laptop for a short
period of time such as a 10 minute break.
• to use suspend, press Fn + F4
OR
• close LCD panel
• if modem card detects an incoming call
while in suspend mode, the laptop auto-
matically resumes normal operation
Did you know?
In general, rechargeable batteries store electrical energy through chemical
reaction - therefore, capacity will change by temperature, unused storage
period, load condition and number of cycles used.
This stops all tasks
and stores them in
memory. Then all
devices except
memory are turned off.
LCD, HDD and au-
dio are turned off.