Getting the most out of battery power supply on the road tips
Today BattAussie notebook battery expert share some useful tips for getting the most out of your laptop battery power on the road, being far from a plug point is no excuse for travelling as though it were the 19th century.
1. Turn off the bling – Turn down your screen brightness. That’s a saving right there. If you can’t see anything with a lower brightness setting, stop using the laptop in the sun. Your screen is one of the most power-hungry parts of your laptop. A fact which should be unsurprising, given that it’s a giant, battery-powered, colour-changing lamp. So put it on a diet from day 1.
2. Triage – The longer you’re going to be away from your next opportunity to recharge, the more important it becomes that you don’t use that precious energy for anything you don’t strictly need. Movies, for example, are a truly spectacular energy drain. They’ll suck your pavilion dv6 laptop battery dry in no time flat if you’re watching them, and in half that time or less if you’re making them.
3. Buy an extended life laptop battery. If an average-sized camel stores only so much electricity (and never confuses its metaphors), a fatter camel will store more. Many laptop computer manufacturers sell high capacity laptop battery packs for their notebook PCs, whose primary drawbacks are a bit more weight and an inelegant bump popping out the back of wherever the battery goes. For this, you can usually get a 50% or more increase in battery life. If you’re going to be off the grid for a while, this boost to your power supply is delightful.
This is even possible for travellers packing MacBooks. While Apple itself would sooner burn to the ground than offer a booster battery that would interfere with the delicate form of your laptop, there are third parties that manufacture external laptop battery packs for Macs that can do the job.
4. Bring a notebook – Unless you’re planning a funded expedition to Chad, complete with solar generators and storage, your laptop battery is probably going to be your most potent power supply. Bringing a laptop, and then learning to efficiently conserve and share its power, will be the core of any decent power management strategy.
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