Thread: Does switching off and on consume more power than standby?
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Betty Woo is offline Betty Woo
2008-02-07 , 20:12
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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
TCharge time is about 30-45 minutes to 80% and 2-3 hours to 100%. It's more or less full if in-use time says 7 hours when CPU is at lowest level.

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You're wasting a lot more power by turning it off and on all the time than you're likely to use letting it idle when not in use.
Whoah.

Just like 'fit to view' that screws up and slows down my New York Times web page, leaving the unit on all the time until it *really* needs a charge seems kinda counter-intuitive.

I obviously am still on the slippery learning curve here