Top 10 Tips Get The Most Out Of Your Laptop Battery,by Batterylaptoppower.com

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 isnt acceptable. The only problem is that in the real world its often hard to get those kinds of results, unless you know a few tricks.

It doesnt take too much to get a lot more time out of your battery, just, well, 10 simple things:

1. Turn off WiFi and Bluetooth if you dont need them. Obviously if youre trying to be online when youre on battery power you need to keep these on, but if youre on a flight or someplace where you arent going to be online, just turn the WiFi off. Same goes for Bluetooth, if you dont 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 battery if the screen isnt at full power. The trick here is turn down the screen until its 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 youre 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 dont just quit the apps you can see all the extras like Dropbox or mouse tools or other add ons use power tooif you dont 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.

6. Set your screen to turn off if not used in a couple minutes. I know it seems extreme, but if you can set your screen to turn off if youre idle for a minute or twobelieve it or not it will make a difference.

7. Have your computer go to sleep if idle for five minutes. Yes, I know, it sounds extreme, but still the idea is that if youre not actively using your machine, then turning the screen off and going to sleep will help you eek out more power.

8. Avoid connecting things to USB ports or the DVD drive. You want to suck your batter dry in a flash? Connect a phone that needs to charge into your machine and watch a movie off the DVD drive at the same time. Those two are huge power draws, especially USB drives and phones that need charging (obviously a charging phone will suck power straight out of your battery). Just try to put off or avoid using them for long.

9. Use a RAM disk. This is a little geeky, but heres the idea. If you need to work on a document instead of constantly reading and writing to your hard drive, a RAM disk is a temporary disk that is saved all in RAM. Not accessing the drive means less power usage. Back in the day we used to use RAM disks to speed up all sorts of functions on our machines (an old trick was to put your Firefox cache on a RAM disk), but the trick seems to have fallen out of favor. The utility I used on my Mac (and unwisely deleted) doesnt seem to be available, but OS X Daily has simple instructions for Mac users. For Windows users I havent been able to find something that looks reliable (suggestions are welcome).

10. Run your battery down once a month. I know this is controversial. Yes, it was certainly true that older batteries had a

memory effect problem, but it was thought that new ones didnt. I guess we were wrong because even Apple recommends draining your battery once a month. In fact, Im draining my battery as Im writing this post. Not only that Ive disregarded all the advice here (well except for using the DVD drive). Its still taken nearly two hours to run the machine until its down to reserve power. The next step is to just let the the machine drop into sleep and run the battery completely down, then charge it back up.

Just remember the basic precept: if you dont need it, turn it off, turn it down, or quit it.

by: batterylaptoppower

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