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Old 07-24-2009, 04:28 PM   #16
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Originally Posted by Thomas Ryan View Post
This has been covered extensively in the past.

Unless the Amazon engineers made a recent blunder - With WAN off, there should be little noticeable battery consumption difference between sleep and off. No additional power is consumed by the display system after a so-called "screensaver" is drawn.

At an abstract level - when WAN is off the on to off switch is simply a command to make the screen white and then take the system into a low power mode, instead of letting some time pass until the screensaver is drawn and the system automatically goes into the same low power state as "off".
I have noticed a major difference between turning off and sleep mode. I always keep WAN off.. probably havn't turned it on in over a month. I get two more weeks out of it if I leave it off. Then again, I probably only use it no more than 2 hours a day, so not sure if that has anything to do with it...
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