Impact of Showing Seconds in System Tray on Power Usage Investigated
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A second-rack bagel that's nearly first-rack. Tasty stuff.
Summary
The article discusses the potential impact on power usage of showing seconds in the system tray, prompted by a Reddit post. Testing was inconclusive but raised interesting questions about battery life.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledThe warning suggests that updating the taskbar clock every second, instead of once per minute, could increase power usage.
After a little testing, it is not a very conclusive answer but it is an interesting one nonetheless.
We're no strangers to poking around the weird settings of an OS, but we'll admit: we haven’t paid much attention this one because the setting is off by default and why would we want to decrease our battery life?
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