With ever increasing mobility in our daily routine, laptops are the integral part of our professional life.
In such a scenario of much dependence over Laptops, imagine a situation that you are surfing and suddenly your screen flashes a message reading ‘You are running out of Battery’; this period is really frustrating and you start looking for a power outlet.
Every battery comes with a fixed life time but still there are some tech tips that can for sure help you to juice up your laptop’s battery:
1. An intelligent move to increase your battery life is to put off background processes which are not really required when you are on battery. For instance, you can put off iTunes, Desktop Search and other like programs that are really of no importance when you are on battery.
2. Love Hibernation than StandBy modes. People often are habitual of leaving their laptops in StandBy mode rather opting for hibernation. But former is not of any help while battery usage is the question. The StandBy mode drains battery even you are not using the notebook where as Hibernation mode is battery friendly and is not an overhead on the battery.
3. Select the hardware that meets your battery life requirement. Fiddling with background processes or to customize the power-management utilities for better battery life can for sure help you; but at last this is underlying hardware that matters most to the battery back up. So optimize hardware by turning off the ports like VGA, Ethernet, using Device Manager. Also, you can create different profiles for different work environment depending on the accessibility of power outlets. For creating different work profiles, Right Click My Computer -> Hardware Profiles -> Preferences. Managing battery life options via controlling hardware, you can also configure your display to turn off when laptop is not in use.
4. Keep Multimedia activities away from your laptop. Laptops are not the hard core tough performers like to go on with music playing, trying hands on with computer games, or watching a movie. These activities drain the battery life of your laptop.
5. Secure your battery from overheating and overloading. Both overheating and overloading damages the battery by giving it an early death. You can for 1000 instance use a cooling pad while using notebook in lap. Do not place it on the surfaces that can get easily heated up. Keep in remembrance to remove battery when plugging laptop to AC outlet.
6. Dim your screen brightness. To make your battery run longer, customize the display settings to optimal. Educed brightness can save your laptop from running low battery at an early stage when you are not in vicinity of power outlet.
7. Above these tweaks, if you are buying a new laptop that can ensure you longer battery life, there are many configurations that can be looked for. For instance, you can select the laptops that are optimized for longer battery hours like selecting a notebook based on Intel Penryn or other low voltage processor, SSD over HDDs (if cost is no limit), LEDs over LCDs, and you should go for a screen that is not big enough to drain battery and not so small to strain your vision.
These tips are not perfect fixes for battery sulk but yes they can let help battery to accompany you longer.
By: piru
Posted under Notebook Laptop
This post was written by admin on November 18, 2009