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How to get most out of your laptop battery?

Whenever you are purchasing the laptop batteries do not spend hard or too many on the laptop battery for better efficiency and battery back keep in mind getting bigger is not always better. As many of today’s laptop are very long working and gives better backup to the user. Laptop battery are made with a advanced power saving technologies that provides long battery power with and consuming less power voltage.

Today’s laptop generally 17 inch laptop battery consume 40-50 % more power than the laptop with a 12 inch. Laptop consumes more power when the level of LCD brightness is more. This will reduce the performance of the battery and more power consumption is used. Always dimmed the screen brightness to low when the battery is low, this will give your much better battery backup. Also there are many such services you can turn them off when not needed. If you have a printer attached to your computer turn the file sharing off that takes much battery power. Also for reducing the brightness of the screen hold down the Fn keys and press the brightness down or up key the adjust the brightness level.

 
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How to buy a laptop battery?

Many people buy the laptop for portable working and its ability to work anywhere at anytime. For working long time on your laptop there should be good battery power to enough to complete your computing work. Also some time you need to buy a spare battery for your laptop. Hence, there are some tips that you should consider while buying a new laptop battery.

1. Battery compatibility

Whenever you are buying any laptop battery look for the model of your laptop battery, remove the battery in the laptop and see the information printed on the battery, because most of the batteries are designed depend on the basis of the size, shape and certain type that support to the laptops. If your laptop battery is made with the lithium-ion then you replace the battery with the lithium-ion battery only.

Also you can ask to your computer technician about the type of battery your laptop hold. This will give proper understanding of the laptop battery that fits inside your laptop. When you purchase the laptop battery see whether it is compatible with your laptop or not otherwise you cannot use the battery that you purchase.

2. Brand

Buying the laptop battery is sometime a hassle free work for anyone. Many people buy spare laptop battery without any understanding, before you buy the battery you should know all the connections, size of the battery in order to purchase any new battery. Make sure you are buying the battery from the authorized manufacture of the product. When you are purchasing the batteries for the laptop always go for the popular companies that are known for their well known products. Do not go for the cheap or used battery that may damage your laptop or may cause some defects to the laptop. Search online for various companies offering laptop batteries make comparisons through many companies available to get good quality battery for your laptop.

 

How to save laptop battery when you are on move?

Many a time you are working on the laptop and you are on the road or far away from your home, there is no enough battery backup in the laptop and you get stuck in such situation of losing the battery backup.

There are some tips that will help you save much laptop battery to work for a long time

1. When you are on the road away from the home and you have to conserve the laptop battery power. Dimmed the brightness and backlight of the laptop or remove any screen saver, wallpaper that consume unnecessary battery. Also make sure no CD, DVD running or any external USB device is attached that drain the battery power. Turn off the Bluetooth, wifi, or any unnecessary services that you are not using. This will give some extra hour’s backup to longtime.

2. You can tweak the power setting to conserve the battery power. In windows Xp and windows vista go to control panel – power options and select the “power saver” option, in that you can adjust the power setting for standby, monitor and hibernate modes also you can create your own power plan.

 

How to maintain laptop battery?

1. Charging laptop battery

When you a buy a new laptop, charge it fully before using for getting optimum usage from the battery. Always charge it fully and use till its battery goes down before recharging it again follow this once in a month for better performance of the battery.

2. Proper temperature for the battery

Computer works best in the temperature of around 0° to 35°C these conditions are good for the laptops battery to work. If are working in very hot and cold temperature it will also effect the performance of your laptop battery. This temperature may have the negative influence on the laptop battery and it may degrade its performance. Therefore it is important to see the temperature for your laptop to work with.

3. Storing the battery

When you not working for more than a month it recommended that you can store the laptop battery in the cool and dry place and also there should be 70 %– 80% battery is remaining for performing the self discharge. When the battery is stored in the cool place it tends to lose the battery very slowly. These will the effect the overall performance of the battery.

4. Replacing the battery

For a proper care of the battery you should provide 200 full charge and discharge cycles. When you need to replace the battery always go for the original battery from the authorized laptop dealer, when you do not get a full battery backup from your laptop and replace the old battery and buy original battery with a good that will serve best for your laptop.

 

How to improve battery life of notebook pc?

Many people use laptop for various purposes for business, commercial and many uses for the home entertainment. They face many problems with the laptop battery, people complaints about the consumption of the laptop battery and how to save more battery with good performance.

There are some simple tips about your notebook pc to save and get better battery backup and boost its performance.

1. Lower the brightness
When you are working on your laptop and you are concerning about the battery, you can turn down some function to lower level to save some battery. Turn down the brightness of you laptop LCD panel that takes up more battery power, use the function keys or from the control panel go to – display setting dialog box and use the slider to lower the brightness. When you increase the brightness, screen saver, gadgets, vista sidebar and high resolution images in the background it sucks much battery power, disable this services to save some battery power.

2. Save power

When you are running the pc under vista, select the power saver mode in order to save battery power and extending the life of the battery when the DC power is on. For selecting the power saving mode go to – control panel – power options dialog box – power schemes in that you can select the power option setting to save your battery power when you running the pc on DC power.

3. Turn off the non essential applications

There are many services that you do not necessary like Wi-fi, Bluetooth, USB attached devices, printer services. When you are not using these services you can turn them off as they consume much system resources and battery. When you attached any USB devices to the PC, disconnect them after you finish the work as they consume your PC battery unnecessary. Also there are many applications you can turn them off to save the system resources and battery power. For turning off the services you don’t need go to control panel administrative tools – services and select the service to turn off.

4. Scheduling tasks

Always see the scheduled tasks when you are working on your PC. Scheduling the antivirus and other maintenance software keeps running in the background and eats up your CPU and battery resources running the full scan system engaged you CPU all the time because of this you cannot get good battery backup. You can turn off or schedule this task when you are free and having no work on your PC.