Computing On the Road

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Conserving Power

One of the main features of notebook-type computers is that you have the power of computing away from your home or office. In the following, information is provided on how to maximize use of the battery pack which is necessary for such computing.

Four Important Points

POINT 1

Be sure to charge your battery before and after use.

POINT 2

To get the maximum use of your battery, set the power man-

POINT 3

agement mode.

Check to see that you have your AC adapter with you before

 

leaving your home or office.

 

Purchasing an extra battery (CF-VZS351A) and the optional bat-

tery charger* is highly recommended.

* for U.S.A. and Canada:

CF-VCB252 (with AC adapter)

for Europe:

CF-VCB251A

POINT 4 Always watch your battery level!

Things to Remember

Leave your computer off when it is not in use

( "Starting Up/Shutting Down")

Adjust the brightness (dark) with Fn + F2

By repeatedly pressing the keys to maximize the brightness (

will be dis-

played), following this, if the keys are pressed again, the brightness will be mini- mized, thereby lowering the power consumption.

Before stepping away from your computer, press Fn + F10 to put your computer in the ECO mode

The ECO mode helps you conserve power by cutting off power to the LCD and turning off the hard disk motor. To resume, you may press any key.

In the power management mode, the setting of [Advanced] is

recommended ( page 15)

With the Setup Utility, you can set the [Advanced] mode. This mode allows you to maximize power save regardless of whether you are using only the battery pack or the AC adapter.

Setting the suspend/hibernation timeout ( page 15)

The suspend or hibernation function ( page 6) allows you to save power by automatically cutting off power when the computer is idle or there is no access to individual devices for 4 or 16 minutes. If [Advanced] or [Standard (Battery/AC Adapter)] is selected for [Power Saving], the suspend/hibernation timeout func- tion will go into effect for both the battery pack and the AC adapter. If, however, [Standard (Battery)] is selected for [Power Saving], it will go into effect only dur- ing operation by the battery. The ECO mode timeout function is automatically set when [Advanced] or [Standard] is set. Note that the ECO mode timeout pre- cedes the suspend/hibernation timeout.

It should be noted that for some applications, the suspend/hibernation timeout will not work properly.

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Panasonic CF-71 manual Computing On the Road, Conserving Power, Things to Remember