Extend Toshiba pa3635u-1bam laptop battery life tips
Technology has improved many folds with laptops getting faster, smaller and more efficient, laptops are improving in performance and battery power, which ultimately means more battery power consumption. Buying a brand new laptop means you can usually get an uptime of around 3-4 hours maximum on your notebook battery. Eventually, as time goes by, and as you continue to use your laptop computer, the battery life starts to decrease.
Although similar in many ways to conserving a smartphone battery life, trying to get more out of your laptop battery should not be disregarded. Today BattAussie laptop battery experts will look into some of the methods by which you could squeeze out that extra bit of time from your Toshiba pa3635u-1bam laptop battery.
Always Remove The Plug After Charging Complete
It’s never a good idea to leave your Toshiba laptop on charging for a long period of time. Once charging is complete, always remember to remove the plug. This will help in avoiding any laptop battery degradation that may occur due to something that’s known as ‘battery overcharge’.
Always Switch To Power Saver Mode When On Notebook Batteries
Windows Laptop offer three types of Power Plans to its users; High Performance, Balanced and Power Saver mode.
As the names indicate, each plan is optimized for different reasons. While the laptop is plugged in and charging, you can always use the High Performance mode without worrying about draining your battery life. But as soon as you’re done charging the laptop, pull the plug and switch to the Power Saver mode.
Switching to Power Saver mode is imperative if you want to prolong your laptop’s battery life. As soon as you switch from a High Performance mode to Power Saver, you will instantly feel the difference. The whole system ‘dumbs’ down, the screen goes dimmer, and the response time slows down. Resultantly, you will always get a much better uptime on Power Saver mode.
What the Power Saver mode actually does is lower down the power it gives to your laptop’s peripherals including the USB drive, CD drive, network card, graphic card and Hard Drive to name a few.
Generally, the three Power Plans are for the following purposes:
– High Performance Mode: For the best performance. Consumes the maximum power.
– Balanced Mode: For a balanced performance and notebook battery timing.
– Power Saver Mode: For maximum battery life. System speed and responsiveness is affected for better overall battery timing.
Say Goodbye To Secondary Devices (CD ROM, Webcams, DVD)
Nowadays, we rarely get to use our CD and DVD drives. Pretty much everything that we used to get using these drives is now available for download from the Internet or can be copied through a USB drive. Even a Windows Installation can now be done using a 4 GB bootable flash drive.
Removing the DVD (or CD) drive from you laptop can help you reduce the power consumption of your laptop and get you a better battery life. Similarly, while you’re on power saving mode, staying away from using USB drives and Webcams will help you make the most out your battery.
Avoid using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth For Better Laptop Battery Performance
Both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth use a considerable amount of power, so it’s always a good idea to manually switch them off temporarily at times when you need your Toshiba satellite a205 laptop battery life to go long. All modern laptops have a keyboard shortcut key that allows for instant on/off for both Wi-Fi and Bluetooth services.
Use An Internal Graphics Card
Laptops nowadays come with two Graphic cards; internal and external. This is usually the case with gaming configured laptops, where a solid graphics card is needed to run graphics intensive video games. Same is the case with other graphics intensive programs like video editing applications. Such laptops have an internal video card, which allows users to basically switch between the external and internal cards. All games are therefore run on the external card while normal widow’s tasks and operations are run on the internal card.
Your Toshiba pa3635u-1bam battery life is improved considerably when you switch to the internal graphic card.
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