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Hello, everyone, welcome back to MSI Blog. Today we are going to share some useful tips for enhancing the battery life of your laptops. If you want to have better battery life on your laptop, besides choosing the one with a bigger battery, there’s also something else that you can do to prolong the battery life. So let’s take a look.
Tip 1: Set The Power Profile Right
The first & easiest way that can enhance the battery life is to set the power profile right. On modern laptops, there are always some profiles available for different user scenarios and from our experience, if you set the power profile properly, you can have better battery life on your laptop. For example, if you’re performing lightweight tasks like documentation or web browsing, set the power profiles to the one that is not too aggressive such as balanced or silent. However, if your laptop is being plugged-in and you need high performance for gaming or multitasking, just set the power profiles higher, such as extreme performance.
Tip 2: Put To The Laptop To Hibernate
The second tip that can enhance the battery life is to put the laptop to hibernate instead of sleep mode if you temporarily don’t need to use it. Yes, putting the laptop to sleep mode promises less time for re-awaking the laptop but it also consumes more power in sleep mode. So it’s better to put the laptop to hibernate mode. However, from Windows 10, the hibernate option won’t be enabled by default so you need to enable it first. Just go to the control panel, find power options, select “Define power buttons and turn on password protection” and enable the hibernate mode. Then you will see it appearing in the power menu.
Tip 3: Do Remember To Charge The Laptop
The third tip for enhancing the laptop battery life and also keeping the battery healthy is to always remember to charge the laptop before it’s drained out. It has been proved that completely draining out the battery will drastically shorten its lifespan so do remember to plug-in your laptop before it’s drained.
Tip 4: Dim The Display A Little Bit
The fourth tip for better battery life is to turn down the screen brightness a little bit. Besides CPU & GPU, the display is the part that consumes most of the power so maybe try to turn down the screen brightness a little bit or do not set it to the brightest. It’s also good for your eyes though.
Tip 5: Switch Off Turbo Boost
The last tip, also the most advanced tip, is to switch off the turbo boost of your laptop. Turbo boost is the behavior of the CPU that will bring more performance. However, it has also been proved that it will consume lots of power, which shortens the battery life of your laptop. So if you will only take your laptop for lightweight tasks like documentation, web-browsing or video-watching, feel free to switch off the turbo boost. You can use Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to switch it off. If you want to turn it off completely, you need to access the BIOS for adjustment but as usual, it’s not recommended to do so if you’re not fully aware of the risk of accessing the BIOS.
So that will be all about the tips for enhancing the battery life of your laptop. Hope you can learn something from this article and we will see you next time!
Tip 1: Set The Power Profile Right
The first & easiest way that can enhance the battery life is to set the power profile right. On modern laptops, there are always some profiles available for different user scenarios and from our experience, if you set the power profile properly, you can have better battery life on your laptop. For example, if you’re performing lightweight tasks like documentation or web browsing, set the power profiles to the one that is not too aggressive such as balanced or silent. However, if your laptop is being plugged-in and you need high performance for gaming or multitasking, just set the power profiles higher, such as extreme performance.
Tip 2: Put To The Laptop To Hibernate
The second tip that can enhance the battery life is to put the laptop to hibernate instead of sleep mode if you temporarily don’t need to use it. Yes, putting the laptop to sleep mode promises less time for re-awaking the laptop but it also consumes more power in sleep mode. So it’s better to put the laptop to hibernate mode. However, from Windows 10, the hibernate option won’t be enabled by default so you need to enable it first. Just go to the control panel, find power options, select “Define power buttons and turn on password protection” and enable the hibernate mode. Then you will see it appearing in the power menu.
Tip 3: Do Remember To Charge The Laptop
The third tip for enhancing the laptop battery life and also keeping the battery healthy is to always remember to charge the laptop before it’s drained out. It has been proved that completely draining out the battery will drastically shorten its lifespan so do remember to plug-in your laptop before it’s drained.
Tip 4: Dim The Display A Little Bit
The fourth tip for better battery life is to turn down the screen brightness a little bit. Besides CPU & GPU, the display is the part that consumes most of the power so maybe try to turn down the screen brightness a little bit or do not set it to the brightest. It’s also good for your eyes though.
Tip 5: Switch Off Turbo Boost
The last tip, also the most advanced tip, is to switch off the turbo boost of your laptop. Turbo boost is the behavior of the CPU that will bring more performance. However, it has also been proved that it will consume lots of power, which shortens the battery life of your laptop. So if you will only take your laptop for lightweight tasks like documentation, web-browsing or video-watching, feel free to switch off the turbo boost. You can use Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to switch it off. If you want to turn it off completely, you need to access the BIOS for adjustment but as usual, it’s not recommended to do so if you’re not fully aware of the risk of accessing the BIOS.
So that will be all about the tips for enhancing the battery life of your laptop. Hope you can learn something from this article and we will see you next time!
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