laptop battery

[Brandon Blackwell]

MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
> I have a Compaq Presario laptop I think the number
is either a 140 or 
> 240, possibly a 140 from what I can recall my sister
telling me although 
> it was a while ago when she might have told me.
> For some reason the battery doesn't last that long
even when I have it 
> on charge for hours.
> Is it me running Orca with Festival or the fact I
keep my wireless 
> network enabled which is making the battery last so
little time or is it 
> something else?
>
>   
I have a Compaq presario. Not the same number but the
battery only last 
about 2 hours for me in Ubuntu. I have it dual booted
and it only last 
30 minutes in windows. Its about a year old also. If
you can scaling 
your processor down does save on the battery life. Dim
the screen as 
much as you can stand. I run wireless all the time
when I'm running on 
battery but I'm sure turning that off will help.I
never use orca but I 
almost always run open office, thunderbird, and gaim
while I'm wireless.

Brandon


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