Are you sick and tired of your notebooks battery cutting out on you when you need it most? Are you always buying new batteries because your old ones aren’t lasting as long as they should be? If either of these questions apply to you, then read on.In this article I will discuss some of things you can do to conserve your batteries power so that your laptop runs longer. I will also discuss some easy things you can do to ensure that your battery gets long life it deserves.
First, let’s cover some of things you can do immediately to cut amount of power your laptop is sucking from battery.
- Remove all cards from your notebooks slots when you are not using them. Believe it or not, some of these cards will suck power even when not being used!
- If your laptop has a power management function, use it. Things like lowering brightness of your screen and turning off screen saver can also help tremendously.
- Turn off your wireless port when not in use. This may seem pointless, but power is used by wireless port scanning for nearest “hot spot”