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Chapter 8: Managing Power
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■If you will have access to an EmPower™ in-flight power receptacle or an
automobile cigarette lighter, use an airplane/automobile power adapter or
power inverter. Save the battery for times when you cannot use a power
adapter.
■To find ACpower outlets in airports, look for them next to support pillars,
in large areas such as boarding gates, and under banks of telephones.
Changing power modes
You can use the following power modes to lengthen the life of your tabletPC’s
battery:
■Standby - while your tabletPC is in Standby, it switches to a low power
state where devices, such as the display and drives, turn off.
■Hibernate - (also called save to disk) writes all current memory (RAM)
information to the hard drive, then turns your tabletPC completely off.
The next time you turn on your tablet PC, it reads the memory information
from the hard drive and opens the programs and documents that were
open when you activated Hibernate mode. For more information on using
Hibernate mode, see “Activating and using Hibernate mode” on page 140.

Using power saving modes

Always save your work before using Standby mode. In Standby mode, your
tablet PC reduces or turns off the power to most devices except memory.
However, the information in memory is not saved to the hard drive. If power
is interrupted, the information is lost.
When in Hibernate mode, your tabletPC saves all memory information to the
hard drive, then turns the power completely off.
If your tablet PC
is... ...and you want to... ...then
On Enter Standbymode Tap Start, TurnOff Computer, then tap Standby.
On Enter Hibernate mode
(must be activated) Tap Start, then tap TurnOff Computer. Press and
hold SHIFT, then tap Hibernate.
In Standby or
Hibernate mode Exit Standby or
Hibernate mode Slide the power switch.