Text 53471, 53 rader
Skriven 2009-02-18 14:09:02 av Jean Parrot (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 53465 av Jeff Guerdat (1:124/311)
Ärende: Battery on laptops & Reader.
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Jeff, how are you ?

 >>  I somehow got a brain-wave and tried the Reader v 7 and voila, it was
 JG> usable.

 JG> Ever tried to open a Word doc that had been saved in the latest version
 JG> while you only had Word 2000?  Same thing.  That's one reason folks have
 JG> been urging you to ditch the old software (another is that many other
 JG> programs can easily create a PDF for you).

	This does not work here, I open all my .docs in Office 2K, but I follow your
analogy, it is the first time that I am unable to open a .pdf in Acrobat. Why
would it not read ALL .pdfs ? Anyway, after reading it in Reader 7 ( not
Acrobat ), I saved it and now Acrobat will read it, a matter of saving it in a
format that can be read.

 JG> Sounds like your battery is on its way out.  I just replaced the battery
 JG> on my ~3 year-old Toshiba because it was very near its end.  It used to
 JG> give me 2-2.5 hours of use, now only about 30 minutes, even after
 JG> recalibrating.  That was the standard battery - I bought the extended
 JG> version this time.  Haven't really checked out life yet other than to
 JG> cycle it a few times to condition and calibrate it but it appears to
 JG> have noticeably better life than the original.

	Jeff, I can not expect you to keep track of my many systems, I have enough of
a hard time here myself. The Thinkpad G41 came with a 4.0 A/H battery with a
warning that it was not to be used on the battery but on the grid. It is a
"heavy" machine, a laptop with a floppy still. I replaced it with an 8.0 A/H
block and it still gives me the full 1 hour of life as when new. This is not
the laptop that I referred to, I had the LG with me and that one still has,
after 3 years, a full block of 3 hours of use. Not on its way out yet. But
without the charger, one is limited, 3 hours for 5 days, I had to use it
parsimoniously.

 JG> You'd need to check the specs on both your laptop as well as the Mac to
 JG> see the difference (if any) in the battery as well as the hardware.
 JG> Additionally, the Mac may be set for a more conservative power saving
 JG> setting while your laptop may be cranked all the way up.  Most people
 JG> don't seem to take the time to check this out, not to mention make
 JG> changes to the settings.  I happen to leave mine on full power, even on
 JG> battery, but know how to reset them if I really need the extra life.

	I also follow this modus operante when on the LG, screen to low brightness
first. The Mac user does nothing with her machine just connects W/Lessly and
reads mail. Her screen is at low brightness too but she never knew this. I keep
the G41 cranked up as you say  as it is always on the grid, rarely on the cell.

	Do not try to memorize what I have to use here, I swing from one to another at
random.  Now on to the U'u pocket guide, I might still come with some questions
for you.

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