The battery life can be extended by a little more sleep–one
Keeping your notebook computers, iPod and iPhone batteries healthy by charging them fully and then discharging them completely at least once a month, as discussed last week, affects two different aspects of your batteries.
Battery life span is how long your battery will last before it must be replaced, and battery life is how long your device will run before it needs recharging.
If you have a notebook computer, there are some other things you can do to extend its battery life:
First, use the Energy Saver System Preference pane’s Battery tab to set the computer sleep and display sleep features to the shortest intervals you can tolerate.
Enabling other Energy Saver options, such as putting the hard disk(s) to sleep when possible, dim the display slightly when on battery power, and reducing screen brightness before the display goes to sleep, can also extend battery life.
Next, use the Displays System Preference pane (or brightness controls on your keyboard) to reduce screen brightness as much as you can tolerate. The lower it is, the longer you can go between recharges.
How to make good use of laptop batteries–two
(C) set energy-saving, the desktop uses the AC, most of people may not pay great importance on the energy-saving features for notebook computers , but for the laptop computer which needs to use battery-power,the energy-saving features should be taken seriously. How to design computer hardware to be more energy-saving, this is not the user problem to be solved.what Users can do is to set the energy saving option in the computer . there are two parts for the Energy-saving setting require the user to adjust: First, the computer BIOS Setup program settings on the energy saving mode; most important thing is there are many energy saving in the operating system setup and operation.when the Computer system is in the actual implementation, Windows system should take precedence over energy-saving settings in the CMOS settings.
1. BIOS's energy-saving settings in the CMOS, has a large "Power Savings", which you can choose "Maximum Battery Life" and "Maximum Performance" and other options. "Maximum Battery Life" is the default energy-saving mode setting. Laptop power saving mode has several states, such as the Idle Mode Idle mode, Standby Mode standby (wait) mode, Suspend Mode suspension (sleep) mode. These settings on the laptop are able to regulate power consumption, mainly because in the computer into energy-saving state, timely close the system equipments which are not used . If in the waiting state, turn off the monitor and hard drive into the dormant state, in addition to close the display and HDD, the memory can also be saved to the hard drive in the content, the whole computer system basically is in maintenance of closed state, once active or restart the computer, the diplay will accurately return to sleep as before. Phoenix BIOS notebooks are most common. Different energy-saving BIOS settings may be different, you should carefully read the screen prompts.
How to make good use of laptop batteries–one
How to make good use of laptop batteries, how to extend their use of time and the use of life which is no doubt troubled by the majority of notebook users .There are many methods and techniques to make good use of laptop batteries , this requires we to learn and apply in the usual use.
(A) when you do not use the laptop for the time being , you can set the laptop into the hibernation mode, to save battery power,you can set the power management program, allowing the system after a period of time into the sleep mode, but this need to wait a few minutes shorter or longer. Is there a way to make notebook computer system to sleep immediately then? a simple method to make notebook computer system fast into hibernation is to directly turn off the display. Press the display is just little things, you can make notebook computers into hibernation immediately and effectively conserve battery energy. When you need to re-use it, simply open the display, the system will automatically return to operation as before.
Describes a method of laptop battery maintenance
A, After you used laptop, use the the "standby" and "sleep" mode of Windows operating system. The battery standby time of up to 50 hours or more when the computer is in standby mode. When the computer is in standby mode ,monitors and hard drives are turned off , computer files and all open programs are stored in the memory. This boot the computer to quickly resume once the original working state, if you are from one room to another room to work, the best in the transfer process so that the computer is in standby mode. Computer in sleep mode will be frozen, when you re-open the computer, it will return to work before you shutdown state. It is said that the computer laptop battery dormant state of standby time up to 6 months or so.
B, turn off the functions of the computer you do not use. Turn off unused equipment, such as wireless networking, Bluetooth, in fact, open the computer's control panel, a power option, you can do some settings by yourself .
C, minimize the brightness of the computer screen, liquid crystal display is power.
D, Do not waste the power of the laptop battery in unimportant things.
The IBM laptop battery maintenance and storage measures–one
The laptop battery maintenance and storage
1. If the laptop battery is not be used for a long time (several months) ,you should remove the saved backup from the laptop. Recommended that each month and a half or so discharge and charge the battery for a time in order to improve the state of your battery to increase battery capacity.
2. If the battery is not used for a long time, the power should be set to 30 to 50% in stocks, it is recommended to charge the battery about once a year, and its power is set to 30 ~ 50%, to prevent excessive discharge and damage the battery. the specific methods of operation of the battery is set to 30 ~ 50% are as follows: When the battery charge is greater than 50%, can open the laptop to cost to 30 ~ 50%. If the power consumption is less than 30%, then first pen the laptop to cost to 3% ,then recharge the battery to 100% and then open the laptop to cost to 30 ~ 50%.
3. Do not put laptop battery battery in the hot temperature and a cold environment, the battery performance will be temporarily reduced. It should be deposited in standby mode and store state , the battery is placed in the cooler areas, for the battery, the best temperature range is about 10 to 20 degrees Celsius.