2010年4月2日星期五

Tips to maximize battery run-time

Netbook users are much more than PC users, so for them the power consumption of the equipment and the stamina of the Batteries so important. If an outlet is close by and you work too long or surfing, it can quickly become too dark for a short duration on the screen. How can something this time herauszögern further, the magazine colleagues tested the laptop and have come to interesting results. The extent to which Reviews are feasible even for one depends on the tolerance but from opposite reading comfort and system performance. The tests were unfortunately not with a Netbook, but with a Toshiba Satellite M505 with Intel Core performed i3, whose normal inspiron 1520 batterylife of 3 hours and 11 minutes was.


The processor offers little potential for power saving


The inspiron 6400 battery consumption of the processor can not further reduce the test that. In the menu Settings -> CPU can minimize the performance, but takes a slower processing speed - in the test than 25 percent - and is still buying in even less power than three minutes duration.


Were tested three more opportunities for power from latitude d820 battery saving, which were much more successful in the execution. The best known version is probably the trick with the screen lighting. This can be from 40 percent in energy saving mode to reduce to 0 percent, or off entirely. Still, the ads are still readable. With the light trick the testers gained in using the M505 eleven minutes longer useful life.


Less light brings the most


Even more efficient in terms of Pavilion ZV6000 battery makes to the OS Windows 7 disabling the graphical effects. Switching off the enhanced graphics Aero Glass - but the Starter Edition to most netbooks anyway does not exist - and the display mode from Aero Peek, one can work 19 minutes longer. However, with disabling drop off some attractive features and the surface looks more like Windows XP than in Windows.


Most of time the mobile work could win with the last trick. By a simple trick can reduce the light pixels displayed on the screen. Personalized the representation so that the contrast reversed and therefore as many areas are displayed in black instead of white. Thus, the latitude d600 batterycould survive in the test 25 minutes longer. Here, too, must respond to compromises, because reading white text on black background is at least used to. The conversion is done by right-clicking on the desktop. It is then necessary to change the design to Windows Classic, only then will the opportunity to select Contrast Black. Here, the features of Aero Glass and Aero Peek go right with flutes and the design is, of course, kind words, very old school.


Sorry, no addition of the effects


All add up the savings along the way, not time gains, but would also even at 19 minutes. Most efficient is to focus on the contrast setting. On the tips of the laptop magazine out there are still other ways too familiar. That is about how to disable WLAN, Bluetooth and UMTSIf this is not needed. Even USB drives and memory cards should be deducted, if not just access it needs. Unnecessary services and processes in the background can also be turned off. And it saves the most electricity from vostro 1400 battery in the rest, if instead of 15 minutes surfing the Internet procrastination time reading a newspaper or something just looks out the window.

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