Power
Different states may be used, depending on whether the notebook is running on external or battery power. After a power scheme has been set, no other intervention is required to control the performance of your notebook processor. The following table describes the processor performance on external and battery power for the available power schemes.
| Processor Performance | Processor Performance |
Power Scheme | While on External Power | While on Battery Power |
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Home/Office Desk | Always runs at the highest | Performance state is |
| performance state. | determined based on |
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| CPU demand. |
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Portable/Laptop | Performance state is | Performance state is |
| determined based on | determined based on |
| CPU demand. | CPU demand. |
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Presentation | Performance state is | Runs at the lowest possible |
| determined based on | performance state. |
| CPU demand. |
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Always On | Always runs at the highest | Always runs at the highest |
| performance state. | performance state. |
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Minimal Power | Performance state is | Performance state is |
Management | determined based on | determined based on |
| CPU demand. | CPU demand. |
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Max Battery | Performance state is | Runs at the lowest possible |
| determined based on | performance state. |
| CPU demand. |
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