December 5th, 2006 in Lifehack
10 Ways to Extend Laptop Battery Life
When you travel with your laptop, you would want long battery life. It’s extremely important when you travel on the plane, where you have all the time to be productive, but the battery couldn’t last as long as your concentration - ouch. Looks no further though, Sam Phillips at On The Beach suggests 10 ways to extend your laptop battery life:
- Only run what you need
- Kill extraneous process
- Be gentle
- Adjust your screen brightness
- Disable built-in hardware features you don’t need
- Be careful with the external peripherals too
- Use power saving features carefully
- Monitor operating temperature
- Maintain the condition of your battery
10 Ways to Extend Laptop Battery Life - [On The Beach]
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judyofthewoods says on December 5th, 2006 at 11:14 am
A great reminder, and some aditional tips, thanks. I run my laptop on solar electricity, so am particularly aware of power consumption. One way to keep consumption down, if you have to buy a new laptop (not sure if it can be done as a rettrofit) is to get one with a ‘mobile’ processor, which is designed to use a lot less power. My current computer has one, and it uses way less than the previous one with a Pentium III processor, which guzzled so much, that I had to sell the computer. It may not be quite as powerful, but if you have plenty of memory and are not into games, I think it is quite adequate.
But why stop at the laptop? All power consumption should be kept to a minimum. Think of all the power stations that don’t have to spew out unnecessary toxic gunk if everyone adopted power saving habits on all computers at all times. One hack that saves the most power is the Off button (OK, powerdown, and unplug on the computer).
battery says on April 9th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
� Don�t leave your laptop plugged in to AC power with a fully charged battery. It�s the heat that kills �em, so don�t leave them in hot cars either.
� If you�re not using them, it�s best to store batteries at about 40% charge, and as cool as possible. Never store them for long periods completely discharged or they might not recharge at all.
battery says on May 17th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
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batteries says on June 4th, 2008 at 11:47 pm
it really irritating when in between typing on a important mail suddenly the laptops starts beeping indicating low battery and unfortunately u dont have a power cord