Tips To Get The Most Out Of Your Laptop Battery

When manufacturers talk about how great their laptops are one of the feature they all highlight is battery life

. Remember when getting a couple hours out your laptop battery was awesome? Yeah now getting something less than 5 or even 8 hours isn't acceptable. The only problem is that in the real world it's often hard to get those kinds of results, unless you know a few tricks.

It doesn't take too much to get a lot more time out of your HP Pavilion dv2000 Battery, just, well, 5 simple things:

1.Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth if you don't need them. Obviously if you're trying to be online when you're on battery power you need to keep these on, but if you're on a flight or someplace where you aren't going to be online, just turn the WiFi off. Same goes for Bluetooth, if you don't need it on, turn it off.

2.Turn down your screen brightness. While screens are a lot more efficient than the used to be, you can still squeeze more time out of your Dell xps M1330 battery if the screen isn't at full power. The trick here is turn down the screen until it's too dark to use, then bump it up a notch or two. That should give you the right balance of brightness and power saving.

3.If you have a backlit keyboard, turn the light off. Just like the screen, the keyboard light drains the battery pretty quickly.

4.If you're not using it, quit it. Every app that is running needs a little processor and hard drive time to stay running, all those apps add up to more drain. And don't just quit the apps you can see all the extras like Dropbox or mouse tools or other add ons use power tooif you don't really need them, just quit them.

5.If your laptop has a power saving mode use it. For example on MacBook Pros there is a setting for More Performance (it can tap into the graphics chip) or Better Battery (no graphics chip). Better battery is clearly the choice here.

Just remember the basic precept: if you don't need it, turn it off, turn it down, or quit it.

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