5 TIPS TO EXTEND YOUR LAPTOP BATTERY LIFE

If you have ever been in a scenario where you have an important deadline to meet but only 8% battery life remaining on your laptop, you will be able to understand the stress and frustration that your laptop can cause. Fortunately, there are ways that you can extend the life of your laptop battery. In today’s blog post, our highly trained staff at Battery Central will provide you with 5 great tips that you can use the next time you need to stretch out the remaining battery power on your laptop.

EXIT UNNECESSARY PROGRAMS

This one is a fairly simple tip, but it is highly effective. Quite often on many computers (especially PC’s) your computer will continue to run programs in the background well after you think you have exited them. These running programs force your computer to use more CPU, and therefore more power. Give it a go, try exiting them.

TURN OFF BLUETOOTH AND WIFI

In another simple but effective effort to save power, try turning off any WiFi or Bluetooth connections unless they are needed.

WATCHING MOVIES THE RIGHT WAY

If you are planning on going on a long plane trip and you are unsure whether there will be charging facilities available, prepare yourself and your movie collection by installing them on your computer on an external hard drive. The physical action of spinning a CD or DVD is quite heavy on power consumption.

USE YOUR BATTERY!

Quite often, people neglect to use their batteries as often as they should. A battery is similar to a car, as if it is left sitting idle in a dusty garage its performance will drastically reduce.

DIM YOUR SCREEN

In the ultimate method to squeeze every last drop out of your laptop battery life, try dimming your screen as low as you can (without straining your eyes!).

In today’s blog post, our team of highly trained and professional staff at Battery Central has once again provided you with some in-depth knowledge of all things battery related. If you require any more tips or would like to purchase a new battery, simply give our team a call today on 1300 008 299.