3 Tip Make Your Laptop Battery Last Longer
1. Keep the Laptop Off Your Lap
1. Keep the Laptop Off Your Lap
"Batteries like to be at room temperature, and I don't mean like a room in the tropics," says John Wozniak, a distinguished technologist for Hewlett-Packard.
Although most of us call our portable PCs laptops, today's high-performance notebooks aren't designed to sit on your lap. Sure, they get warm and you may start to feel uncomfortable after a while, but that's not the point. Most laptops have little legs on the bottom, designed to let a bit of air flow underneath. When you're working on a hard surface, like a desk, there's no problem, but when the notebook sits on your lap, it sinks down a bit and air can't circulate.
That can become a real issue rather quickly if you're watching a movie, since playing a DVD keeps both the CPU and the graphics chips busy and running fairly warm. You can avoid the problem by working on the folding tray if you're flying, or spending $20 or so on a pad stiff enough to give the laptop a bit of clearance.
Keeping the vents on your laptop clean does a lot to keep heat from building up. A simple, but effective method is to buy a can of compressed air from any computer shop or hardware store and blow out the dust.
2. A Little Unplugging Helps
Not so long ago, most laptop batteries were NiCads, that is, nickel cadmium based. That design had a fairly major flaw: if the
laptop battery was consistently charged before running most of the way down, it would no longer take a full charge, no matter how long it was plugged in. That was called battery memory, and the solution was to drain them every now and then and be sure they got a full charge.
Today's lithium ion batteries don't have that problem, so don't worry about recharging before the power gauge is hovering near empty, says Wozniak.
However, leaving them plugged in all the time isn't a good idea either, although it's tempting. In effect, the battery gives the user an uninterruptible power supply, so if you expect the electricity to go off unexpectedly, it makes sense to keep the
laptop battery in place when the machine is plugged in.
But do that too much, and your battery will degrade. So remove it if you don't plan to work unplugged for an extended period of time. The best way to store a lithium ion
laptop batteries is to let it drop to about 60 percent of its charge and be sure you keep it in a reasonably cool place, he says.
3 Tip Make Your Laptop Battery Last Longer
By: www.ibuynow.com.au
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