Re: power consumption rates

Sue Dolezal (sdolezal@montana.com)
Mon, 6 Mar 95 20:16 PST

I don't know for sure, but I would bet good money the complete power-off
saves more battery life (though probably not much) and the off-button is
simply an interrupt to go into "sleep mode" and turn off power to the
LCD, because the unit is right where you left off. It would be much
slower if it reloaded everything.

On Mon, 6 Mar 1995, Domingo Chang wrote:

> While operating in expert mode, I can shut down the machine
> completely....either by closing out all the apps running or doing an exit to
> dos....
>
> however, is there any real power savings as opposed to leaving the apps running
> and simply toggling the on/off switch on the side of my zoomer? Are they both
> the same thing? I doubt this since once comes back on the way I left it, the
> other displays boot up messages normally associated with a reset.
>
> anyone have any thoughts on this?
>
> dom
>
>