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January 17th, 2012
Ways to prolong the lifetime of laptop battery
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Compare with the traditional battery, the laptop battery are expensive and not widely used. As a common, the battery is not environmental for the green environment. Moreover, many laptop users are concerned about the laptop battery lifetime. How to prolong the lifetime of the laptop?
There are many factors that can contribute to battery performance, including age, usage, calibration, environmental factors, and overall load. When someone goes to a cafe or library and browses the Internet while listening to music, even with seemingly minimal load on the computer, many tasks are performed that can quickly drain the battery. Bright screens and running multiple applications are just a few tasks that can affect battery life. For basic computer usage, here are some tips for how to run the computer to lengthen the battery life. This involves minimizing the computing experience, but if done correctly, you can increase the battery runtime, and sometimes well above the advertised times.
The screen is one of the largest battery drainers in the system, and we recommend that you dim the screen as much as possible. Ideally, you should run the screen on the first brightness setting for the best battery life. This can take some getting used to, but the difference in the time yield between minimal brightness and full brightness can be hours.
If they're not needed, turn off wireless technologies, since these will consume laptop battery power to both broadcast and receive wireless signals. This will not only disable the hardware (or at least put it in a low-power mode); it will also prevent the system from running driver tasks to control these devices. If networking is required, you should use an Ethernet connection, if available. As with the display, the backlight on the keyboard should be turned off unless you absolutely need it, and then only turn it on minimally.
Depending on what's being done on the computer, there may be times where you are thinking about your work, or not actively looking at the screen and interacting with the computer. This can be for a few seconds or minutes, but one habit that will increase the battery life is to fully dim the display when not in use. For instance, before taking a break to stretch or chat with people, hit the dim key until the screen turns off completely. Then only brighten the screen enough to do the next few tasks and dim it again when done with those tasks. This habit can greatly increase the battery runtime.
Avoid turning off the computer, since booting it up will drain the battery. Instead, if you are taking a break from you work for 5 to 10 minutes, put the computer in sleep mode. This can be done via the "Apple" menu, or can also be done by pressing the power button followed by the "s" key when the shutdown options appear. This may be a slightly faster way of performing this task than using the menus.
In the "Energy Saver" System Preferences, you should switch over to "Better Battery Life" graphics when running on the laptop batteries
There are many ways to prolong the lifetime of the laptop battery, we should make use of our life resource and do helpful to our environment from our habits.
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Posted by jessica879108 on January 17th, 2012, 12:40
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