Hardware budgets are feeling the pinch of our tepid economy, and many
companies are making employees use their laptops longer. If you are
starting to tell your folks to keep plugging along with their laptops
for four or five years instead of just three, you might be running into
an unexpected expense: dead laptop batteries
Well, to be fair, your laptop's batteries probably aren't completely
dead.
But since Lithium Ion batteries tend to lose about 20% of their
capacity each year, a typical three-year-old laptop might only get about
an hour or so on a charge, which might not even get your folks through
an entire meeting. Here are four simple tips to forestall the day that
you need to replace those batteries:
Recondition your battery regularly. Most laptop manufacturers (except Apple) don't generally tell you about this, but a simple process known as reconditioning (or occasionally, recalibrating) can breathe new life into your laptop battery and add capacity back. To do that, turn off your screen saver and any other power management tools which put your PC to sleep. Fully charge the laptop, and then let it run all the way down — right until it powers down due to lack of juice. Then charge it back up again and restore your power management stuff. Do this every few months (such as three times a year).
Remove it when you're not using it. When you leave your laptop plugged in at your desk all day every day, the battery never gets a chance to discharge and recharge — which is critical to its long-term health. Thankfully, there's a simple solution: Remove the battery. As long as your laptop is connected to AC power, the battery isn't necessary; it'll run without it. Just remember to pop it back in before you take your laptop on the go.
Start with a super-sized battery. When you purchase your next round of laptops, upgrade to the extended-life battery. Not only will it give you significantly longer runtime to start with — great for road warriors and anyone else who works away from the office a lot — but the inevitable loss of battery life will have a less pronounced effect. The added cost of the larger batteries is worth the investment, because they end up lasting significantly longer.
Satu tips lagi, jangan sesekali bagi pinjam bateri laptop kepada member yang menggunakan OS berlainan . Maksud aku, kalau kita pakai win 7 dan kawan kita tu guna win xp nak pinjam, memang x bagos untuk dipinjamkan sebabnya bateri kita akan cepat habis . aku pernah kena daaa ... hahaaa