[Ti] Battery Life

[Victor Eijkhout]

>Well, you obviously never talked to me -- by turning down the backlight to 1
>(and off when it's not needed), spinning down the hard drive, and making
>sure that networking (a BIG power sucker) was disabled, I've gotten between
>5 and 6 hours out of my PBG4-500 w/512MB RAM (running 9).

Can you do that with X? I don't know how to spin down the drive,and 
can you do more than turning Airport off? I get about 3 hours if I do 
moderate work while playing mp3s, and backlight on lowest setting.

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