An idea to get longer battery life in a laptop.

[Clemens Eisserer]

No, it isn't.  Background light will still be on.

2009/12/19, Samuel Löf <lofsa at yahoo.com>:
> Hi everyone, I have an idea for longer battery life in laptops.
> I have a laptop with a big 17" widescreen, the screen uses 1680X1050 I guess
> that the screen consume a large amount of the battery power.
> What if one could lower the resulution without filling the whole screen? For
> exemple  1280X800 with 125 pixel black border up and down, and 200 pixel
> black border right and left.
>
> If I'm right the screen has orignally 1764000 (1680x1050) active pixels and
> with the lower resolution 1024000 (1280x800) that is 740000 less active
> pixels and probaly result in longer battery life. This is probaly not a
> setting one would like to use all the time but I think it would be a good
> "emergency mode"
>
> I have no idea if this is possible, is it? Is it a good idea?
> Regards Samuel
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