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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
For all you asus 1000HE people.
Astra and I are wondering.
Would using a bluetooth mouse, use up battery life faster than just using a logitech nanovx mouse with the tiny receiver?
Can you keep the bluetooth option off, and does this save power?
If so, doesn't if follow that by using a bluetooth mouse, you need it on all the time, thereby draining your battery faster?
Forgive my ignorance.  |
Keeping the bluetooth option off will save power. There are function key option and a tray application option that allows you to turn off the wireless LAN, bluetooth, or webcam at any given time to save power.
As I'm not using an external mouse currently, I've turned off bluetooth and the webcam all the time. As I also have a broadband USB adapter, if I'm away from my home wireless LAN, I would turn that off as well to save battery power.
I would surmise that there's no appreciable difference between using a bluetooth mouse or a mouse with a USB dongle. Given a choice, I would prefer a bluetooth mouse for a cleaner installation and avoid another dongle jutting out of my netbook. It's definitely something that I wouldn't worry much about from a power perspective.
The 9 hour rated battery time is with all power saving options off including WLAN, bluetooth, and camera. Real-world is around 6-7 hours with these options turned on which is still amazing and should get through the day when you can recharge the netbook again. I don't think there's another netbook that has this type of battery performance.
I hope you folks are suffering from some slight "analysis paralysis".