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Old 04-27-2009, 10:23 AM
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I've heard different things about batteries. The strongest being that you don't necessarily want to keep the battery charging all the time. Instead, you can remove the battery once it's charged. Then when you need it plug it back in to peak the charge.

If you want to know how to increase the single-charge work time of a battery on a laptop, the most energy hungry single part of your laptop is your LCD display backlight. If you decrease the brightness to the minimum comfortable, you'll get more time out of your charge. Other things you can do are set your OS to turn things like your hard drive, USB and display off when idle.
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