With the rise in
laptop sales it is essential for laptop buyers to make sure they use their
laptop batteries to the fullest and also make sure they can achieve the highest
performance with the available battery. Generally most laptops claim to have
4-6 hours of battery life but in real it comes to half to the promised backup
time because of many factors like heavy usage while on battery backup, running
USB based gadgets, CD/DVD ROMs etc. You can also need to make sure about some
battery life saving tips because the laptop batteries generally have a life of
around 1000 recharge cycles. So here is some tips to increase laptop battery
backup in some easy ways.
1.
Defrag
regularly : The faster your hard drive its work – less demand you are going to
put on the hard drive and your battery. Make your hard drive as efficient as
possible by defragging it regularly. (but not while it’s on battery of course!)
Mac OSX is better built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very
applicable for Apple systems.
2.
Get rid of
bloatware : Get rid of all the useless
software that comes bundles with laptops. You really don’t need all those
monitors, recovery solutions and such, there are far better. Lighter and free
data recovery alternative available. All of these programs running in the
background not only slow down your computer, but also use up precious
processing power which in turn depletes the battery. Even make sure that there
are only essential items in startup, you don’t need iTunes , Adobe Updater and
stuff to startup with your Laptop.
3.
Dim your
screen : Most laptops come with the ability to dim your laptop screen. Some
even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance. Turn them down to
the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra battery juice.
4.
Unplug
external devices and empty disc drives : External devices like a USB external
HDD, an iPod or mouse use power from the laptop to run. Therefore, unplug them
so that all the battery power is used just for your laptop. If you want to
watch a movie from removable media, copy it to your HDD and unplug the external
device. Not only is it faster, that’s one less device using up previous battery
power. Similarly, if you’re not using the optical disc drive, remove any discs
from it because even if it’s not being read from or written on, the disc keeps
spinning and using power.
5.
Avoid
multimedia content and using speakers : Gaming or watching HD movies on battery
power is not a good idea, it eats your battery really very fast. The graphics
card works overtime and requires more power to render graphics or frames in a
movie, specially HD ones. As much as possible, mute the sounds as well or use
earphone/Headphones while watching a movie.
6.
Turn off
connectivity services: When you’re not surfing the internet through WI-FI or
transferring data through Bluetooth, turn them off to save battery power.
Turning them on or off is just a key press away on modern laptops and shouldn’t
be too cumbersome. Both these services require considerable power.
7.
Keep the
battery contacts clean : Clean your battery’s metal contacts every couple of
months with a cloth moistened with rubbing alcohol. This keeps the transfer of
power from you battery more efficient.
8.
Hibernate
not standby : Although pacing a laptop in standby mode saves some power and you
can instantly resume where you left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power
as the hibernate function does. Hibernating a PC will actually save your PC’s
state as it is, and completely shut itself down.
9.
Update
drivers : Although it’s not considered a direct connection, most newer drivers
help devices perform more efficiently and thus consume less power. Furthermore,
they can even offload processing tasks to specific components and not stress
the CPU.
10.
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.
After following all this tips I am defiantly sure that your battery
backup time will increases much better than befor.
