Released on: October 24, 2008, 1:21 am

Press Release Author: angelina maben

Industry: Electronics

Press Release Summary: With a sharp rise in laptop demand an increasing global
warming has led all of us to think to curtail power consumption in best possible
way. These 16 crucial tips can almost double your laptop battery life delivering you
better experience.


Press Release Body: With a sharp rise in laptop demand an increasing global warming
has led all of us to think to curtail power consumption in best possible way. So we
give 16 tips to stretch the lifeline of laptop battery ensuring the fullest usage
and the highest performance with the available battery. Where laptops batteries are
claimed to have 4-6 hours of life, in fact it comes to 50% of assured backup time.
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The factors can be heavy laptop usage while on battery backup, running heavy
software and USB Based gadgets, CD/DVD Roms etc.

You must be incognizant of the fact that the laptop batteries generally have a life
of around 1000 recharge cycles. These 16 crucial tips can almost double your laptop
battery life delivering you better experience.

1.) Use original laptop charger/ adapter as local cord can decrease the life of
battery.

2.) Curb the usage of unnecessary external device whether by Bluetooth or USB
because they consume more power.

3.) Prefer to Li-Ion based batteries because the built-in internal processors can
control the internal temperature to prevent over heat or explode and are easy to
manage.

4.) If you donEUR(tm)t use your laptop regularly it recommended removing the batteries
completely because of limited life of 1000 recharge tentatively.

5.) Optimise your power settings for maximum performance as the advanced power
options settings are always available in what ever laptop you buy.

6.) Keep operating temperature down as the Batteries perform better when they're cool.

7.) Lower brightness in display can help you to use lower battery ensuring you more
battery life and better backup as the display system takes 50% of your available
battery.

8.) Automatic Hibernate features save all your current applications and hibernates
when you are not using the laptop for a given amount of time saving power.

9.) Exposing Batteries to sunlight can cause major damage as batteries are
temperature sensitive.

10.) Be finicky while choosing software as some software programs suffering from
bloatware can eat your battery super fast. Avoid using heavy softwares like Adobe
Photoshop or coral draw etc.

11.) Cut short unnecessary programs run on startup as they consume power irrelevantly.

12.) Defragmenting your hard disk drive regularly can assure quick processing and
less power usage.

13.) Shun CD/DVD Drives usage while running your laptop on batteries because they
drain laptop battery heavily resulting in lower backup time.

14.) Disabling Aero Glass Feature in Windows Vista can save most. You need to right
click on your switch your appearance settings to Classic Appearance.

15.) Avoid running multiple applications as it can be a major power guzzler even
though your laptop can support huge applications simultaneously because of the heavy
configuration like processor, RAM etc.

16.) Buying the Right Processor can be impact to your laptop life running on full
charge, Newer CPUs to conserve power even shut down parts of the chip.


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