What eats battery power?

[x64Jimbo]

This might seem intuitive, but have you tried turning down the
brightness on your screen? I find that to be the biggest battery hog
for me. Also, programs that access the hard disk are quite battery
hungry. You should make sure you turn off caching in firefox and that
will decrease writes to the hdd. With your wireless card, you should
try finding a way to turn down your transmission rate/range if you
don't need it. You can get by quite well on a 2Mb connection if you're
just surfing.


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x64Jimbo