Top 8 Ways to Extend Your Digital's Battery Life

Top 8 Ways to Extend Your Digital’s Battery Life



Digitals tend to lose their charm quickly when you’re constantly looking for the nearest power outlet to charge up. How do you keep your battery going for as long as possible? Here are 15 easy ways to do so.



1. Defrag regularly - The faster your hard drive does its work - less demand Canon NB-4L Battery  you are going to put on the hard drive and your battery. Make your hard drive as efficient as possible by defragging it regularly. (but not while it’s on battery of course!) Mac OSX is better built to handle fragmentation so it may not be very applicable for Apple systems.



2. Dim your screen - Most digitals come with the ability to dim your digital screen. Some even come with ways to modify CPU and cooling performance. Cut them down to the lowest level you can tolerate to squeeze out some extra battery juice.



3. Cut down on programs running in the background. Itunes, Desktop Search, etc. All these add to the CPU load and cut down battery life. Shut Canon BP-511 Battery down everything that isn’t crucial when you’re on battery.



4. Add more RAM - This will allow you to process more with the memory your laptop has, rather than relying on virtual memory. Virtual memory results in hard drive use, and is much less power efficient. Note that adding more RAM will consume more energy, so this is most applicable if you do need to run memory intensive programs which actually require heavy usage of virtual memory.



5. Run off a hard drive rather than CD/DVD - As power consuming as hard drives are, CD and DVD drives are worse. Even having one in the drive can be power consuming. They spin, taking power, even when they?re not actively being used. Wherever possible, try to run on virtual sony np-f970 battery drives using programs like Alcohol 120% rather than optical ones.



6. Get yourself a more efficient digital camera - digitals are getting more and more fujifilm np-40 battery efficient in nature to the point where some manufacturers are talking about all day long batteries. Picking up a newer more efficient laptop to replace an aging one is usually a quick fix.



7.  Prevent the Memory Effect - If you’re using a very old laptop, you’ll want to prevent the ‘memory effect’ - Keep the digital camera battery healthy by fully charging and then fully discharging it at least once every two to three weeks. Exceptions to the rule are Li-Ion batteries (which most digitals have) which do not suffer from the memory effect.



8. Hibernate not standby - Although placing a digital in standby mode saves some power and you can instantly resume where you Sony NP-FM50 Battery left off, it doesn’t save anywhere as much power as the hibernate function does. Hibernating a PC will actually save your PC’s state as it is, and completely shut itself down.