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Disposing of the computer and the computer ’s
batteries
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Discard this computer in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. For
further information, contact your local government.
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This computer contains rechargeable batteries. After repeated use, the
batteries will finally lose their ability to hold a charge and you will need to
replace them. Under certain applicable laws and regulations, it may be illegal
to dispose of old batteries by placing them in the trash.
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Please be kind to our shared environment. Check with your local government
authority for details regarding where to recycle old batteries or how to
dispose of them properly. Disposal of this material may be regulated due to
environmental considerations. For disposal, reuse or recycling information,
please contact your local government.
EnergyStar
®
Program
Your computer model may be Energy Star® Compliant.
If the model you purchased is compliant, it is labeled
with the ENERGY STAR logo on the computer and the
following information applies. TOSHIBA. is a partner in
the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Energy Star
Program and has designed this computer to meet the latest
Energy Star guidelines for energy efciency. Your computer
ships with the power management options preset to a
conguration that will provide the most stable operating environment and optimum
system performance for both AC power and battery modes.
To conserve energy, your computer is set to enter the low-power Sleep Mode
which shuts down the system and display within 15 minutes of inactivity in AC
power mode. We recommend that you leave this and other energy saving features
active, so that your computer will operate at its maximum energy efciency. You
can wake the computer from Sleep Mode by pressing the power button.
According to the EPA, a computer meeting the new ENERGY STAR specications
will use between 20% and 50% less energy depending on how it is used. If all
U.S. household and businesses replaced old computers with new ENERGY STAR
qualied models, we would save more than $1.8 billion in energy costs over the
next ve years and avoid greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to more than 2.7
million cars.
If every computer purchased by businesses next year met the new ENERGY
STAR requirements, businesses would save more than $210 million over the
lifetime of those models. That is equivalent to lighting 120 million square feet of
U.S. commercial building space each year.
Visit
http://www.energystar.gov
or
http://www.energystar.gov/power management
for more information regarding the ENERGY STAR Program.