I am now taking my TR without its AC adapter. I am trying some different settings to find the perfect balance between performance and power saving. I am not a big fan of hibernation though and I am not willing to give up screen brightness.

What do you guys do?

it all depend on what you wann do… i usually use the pre defined one like “wordprocessing” when i wanna .. or “DVD” when i watch..
other wise if you don care abouthe screen brightness ( which is not you case) you can put in on the darkest.. i sometime to that when i only use my tr as a mp3 player 8)
I connected my tr as an AUX to my hifi system…. waouw i m really amaized about the sound that comes out that little computer… does it have an internal subwoofer??? Coze i activated the mega bass thing… i now makes my walls vibrate :D

Initially, I used to keep the screen brightness on full but after reading one of groovy’s post regarding the backlight intensity decreasing naturally after a few months of usage, I decreased mine to half. It felt weird for a few days (I’m sure you dont want to decrease the brightness for this reason only) but I finally got used to it. Infact if I changed it to max brightness it started hurting my eyes. Give it a try…decreasing screen brightness will definitely give you a few extra mins. A

Another option will be to get the large capacity battery…that will give you an extra 2 or so hours!

just get the bp3t and you won’t have to worry about it.

[quote author=“Rahul”]Initially, I used to keep the screen brightness on full but after reading one of groovy’s post regarding the backlight intensity decreasing naturally after a few months of usage, I decreased mine to half. It felt weird for a few days (I’m sure you dont want to decrease the brightness for this reason only) but I finally got used to it. Infact if I changed it to max brightness it started hurting my eyes. Give it a try…decreasing screen brightness will definitely give you a few extra mins. A

Another option will be to get the large capacity battery…that will give you an extra 2 or so hours!

of course, that is, if you want a big fat blob sticking out of the back of your TR.
  Baby got back…  8)

~nox

Oh well, if after the advent of the T series Lourenco regretted buying the TR, I’m sure he wouldn’t mind the BP3T. 

In fact I love my TR… and I am not into that T´s “fat ass”...

i’ve had my tr3 on bright since the day i started using it (6 months now, 24x7) and have noticed NO decrease in brightness. wuz up with that!

i have two standard batteries and a mobile kensignton charger for when on the road and have never run into a situation where i was out of power using ultimate battery power when on that and AC power setting when not. sometimes i’ll even run presentation setting or DVD and still get 3 hours on each bat. truly amazing boxes!
jigs

[quote author=“jiggy”]i’ve had my tr3 on bright since the day i started using it (6 months now, 24x7) and have noticed NO decrease in brightness. wuz up with that!

jigs, you’ll probably notice it only if you place your TR at max. brightness next to a brand new TR also at max. brightness. That’s how groovy noticed it.

thanks rahul for that bit of info, but somehow i dont see how that’s relevent, unless we are going back to measuring TR electrons and photons again I keep mine at the brightest setting cause i am going blind over time, probally due to 1970-90’s crt screens.  i would notice a decrease, i think, but then again its all going dark over time….

LOL, Jiggy.

I fussed around with the energy management when I first got my TR. Over the last 6 mos.I’ve found I seldom need to worry about it. 

If I think I might need to stretch run time a bit, I’ll sometimes drop brightness one or two levels.

I found the optical drive power off option a pain when switching applications, so I stopped using it early on.

I do use a pofile when just playing MP3s to turn off the screen and inhibit hibernation with the lid closed.

I guess it comes down to how much runtime you actually need.