15 ways to conserve laptop battery power
Those of who who use laptops probably are always aware of the amount of battery power left when you are working “unplugged”. Some of you probably even bought a spare battery or one with a bigger capacity in order to get more hours on the road. Here are a couple of tips on how to conserve your laptop’s battery power.
11. Set up and optimize your power options - Go to ‘Power Options’ in your windows control panel and set it up so that power usage is optimized (Select the ‘max battery’ for maximum effect).
12. Don’t multitask - Do one thing at a time when you’re on battery. Rather than working on a spreadsheet, letting your email client run in the background and listening to your latest set of MP3’s, set your mind to one thing only. If you don’t you’ll only drain out your batteries before anything gets completed!
13. Go easy on the PC demands - The more you demand from your PC. Passive activities like email and word processing consume much less power than gaming or playing a DVD. If you’ve got a single battery charge - pick your priorities wisely.
14. Get yourself a more efficient laptop - Laptops are getting more and more efficient in nature to the point where some manufacturers are talking about all day long batteries. Picking up a newer more efficient laptop to replace an aging one is usually a quick fix.
source: FriedBeef
1 opinion for 15 ways to conserve laptop battery power
uday
Aug 19, 2007 at 5:02 pm
Great tips buddy…..
Would like to add few more:
#Reduce the brightness of LCD/TFT screen a bit. This can save lot of power.
#Opt for dark or black theme for windows.
#Check all running processes (ctrl-alt-del). End all unwanted processes which are not related to u’r current application.
Thx
uday
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