Are there any power saving apps for Dell Inspiron notebooks?

[Dan2]

I just bought a Dell Inspiron 5100 P4 2.4 the other day and so far I'm very happy with it, except it drains the battery like crazy.

My friend's Toshiba (some new Celeron 2.0) has an include power utility that lets him adjust the CPU speed, brightness, etc. for when he removes A/C power from the notebook.

Is there any included app or downloadable 3rd party app that allows my Dell to have such features? Thanks!

 

[Derango]

The reason it drains battery like crazy is because it has a desktop processor in it, not a mobile processor. It can't chance CPU speed on battery since its not desgned for it, but you can change the brightness of the LCD based on AC or battery. On every dell I've ever used, you can just plug in the A/C Adapter adjust the screen brightness to however you want it on A/C, unplug it and adjust for battery and it'll remember that stuff.

Other than that...there's not much you can do.

 

[Dan2]

Well what's odd is all the reviews I read cited that it had great battery life (3+ hours), but I'm seeing more like 1.5 hours and that's using basically notepad and not much else.

Thanks.

 

[TKHDebater]

To change the screen brightness try using the FN key and the arrow keys, this will help a lot with battery life. If you're sure its a P4 and not a P4m then i would doubt theres much you can do to get better battery conservation from your processor... good luck, let me know if you find a good app

 

[Bloodstein]

Return the thing and get a Centrino, bud. Better battery life and about the same performance and price. The P4 chips should've never come into laptops.