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Hi all,
Planning to get a NC10 very soon. I saw a chart recently, which I believe said the lcd uses up more than 50% of the battery on a laptop. When I’m traveling, I plan to sometimes use my NC10 for mp3 playback, don’t really need the screen then.
Is there a way to turn off the screen?
Thanks, this is a great forum,
CBFn + F5 will turn off the screens backlight, though the screen itself is still running.
When I hooked my NC10 up via a Kill-O-Watt meter with the battery removed, the difference between the screen being on full brightness and the backlight off was around 2W. It’s not 50% but it should give you some additional run time.
Do you have a link to that chart?
Here’s the chart, it’s from a Windows 7 engineering blog:
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2009/01/06/windows-7-energy-efficiency.aspx
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The download on this page is only 22k and works a treat, it just turns the monitor off on launching, reactivate by key press/trackpad – just put a shortcut in rocketdock / quick launch:
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