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CompTIA A+ Certification All-in-One Exam Guide

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3. Many cities offer a hazardous materials disposal or recycling

service. Check to see if and how your local government will help

you dispose of your old batteries.

Power Management

Many different parts are included in the typical laptop, and each part uses

power. The problem with early laptops was that every one of these parts used

power continuously, whether or not the system needed the device at that time.

For example, the hard drive continued to spin even when it was not being

accessed, the CPU ran at full speed even when the system was doing light

work, and the LCD panel continued to display even when the user walked

away from the machine.

Over the years, a lot of work has gone into improving the battery life of

portable devices. Beyond engineering better batteries and ever-more-efficient

components, the system firmware and OS of most modern portables

collaborate with the firmware of individual components to manage their

power use. To reduce power use, the computer can power off unused

components until they are needed, enter a low-power mode when the device

isn’t in use, and throttle the performance of power-hungry components like

the CPU to fit the current workload. This process of cooperation among the

hardware, BIOS, and OS to reduce power use is known generically as power

management.

Low-Power Modes

If you don’t know what’s going on under the hood, computers usually appear

to be clearly off or on. In reality, most computers (both desktops and

portables!) that appear to be off are using at least a little power, and may be

in one of a few low-power modes. The CompTIA A+ 220-1002 exam focuses

on configuring basic power options in the Windows Control Panel, but it’s

good to have a handle on low-power modes in general.

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