Advanced Power Management; Advanced Configuration And Power Interface - Acer TravelMate 330 Series User Manual

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Operating on Battery Power

Advanced Power Management

Advanced Configuration and Power Interface

This computer supports the APM standard designed to further
reduce power consumption. APM is a power-management
approach defined jointly by Microsoft and Intel. An increasing
number of software packages support APM to take advantage of
its power-saving features and allow greater system availability
without degrading performance.
For more information about APM under Windows, refer to your
Windows user's manual.
Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) is a power
management specification jointly developed by Intel, Microsoft,
and Toshiba. ACPI enables Windows 98 to control the amount of
power given to each device attached to the computer. With
ACPI, Windows 98 can turn off peripheral devices when they are
not in use, thereby saving power.