One of the most important aspect when you buy a laptop should be the life battery, and after you buy it, you should take care of it and try to extend it as much as you can.Here are some tips for extending your laptop's battery life.First of all, you should defrag your hard drives regularly and pay attention to the fact that the faster your laptop's hard drive works, less demand you are putting on the hard drive and the battery. You should make your hard drives as efficient as possible, and defrag them. It is well known that Mac OSX is built to handle better the fragmentation and it may not be very applicable to computer with Apple OS installed.
You can "cut" the laptop screen to the lowest level of dim, so you can modify the CPU and cooling performances. This is another way you can aqueeze some battery juice, and also you should throw an eye to the programs running on background, because they are all added to the CPU load and they cut battery life. Shut down everything you think it is not crucial when you are on battery.Other aditional devices which should be cut in order to extend the battery life are the external devices, and I think you can quit the coffee warmer, or the mini drum kit when you are on battery. All these USB devices, including the mouse, and the Wi-Fi drain the laptop battery.
To extend your laptop's battery life, you should think about adding some more RAM, whcih will alow your laptop to process more with the mamory it has, than based on the virtual memory. This virtual memory usage means that you take space from the hard disk, and it has a very low eficiency. This is very aplicable to situation when you run programs which require a lot of virtual memory.
One of the most important aspect when you buy a laptop should be the life battery, and after you buy it, you should take care of it and try to extend it as much as you can.Here are some tips for extending your laptop's battery life.
First of all, you should defrag your hard drives regularly and pay attention to the fact that the faster your laptop's hard drive works, less demand you are putting on the hard drive and the battery. You should make your hard drives as efficient as possible, and defrag them. It is well known that Mac OSX is built to handle better the fragmentation and it may not be very applicable to computer with Apple OS installed.
You can "cut" the laptop screen to the lowest level of dim, so you can modify the CPU and cooling performances. This is another way you can aqueeze some battery juice, and also you should throw an eye to the programs running on background, because they are all added to the CPU load and they cut battery life. Shut down everything you think it is not crucial when you are on battery.Other aditional devices which should be cut in order to extend the battery life are the external devices, and I think you can quit the coffee warmer, or the mini drum kit when you are on battery. All these USB devices, including the mouse, and the Wi-Fi drain the laptop battery.