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By Steve Horton |
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Most of us pine for the day when we will no longer have to walk around with chargers for our mobile PCs. Until that time comes, we must take advantage of the several ways in which laptop battery life can be conserved and extended for its full performance. The Windows 8 architecture offers several predefined plans and methods for saving and promoting battery power. We have organized them under five headings:
And here’s a sixth bonus tip: Download Battery Optimizer. It’s a free app, works great in Windows 8, and offers several automatic methods and custom power plans for keeping your laptop going longer between charges.
Microsoft optimized Windows 8 using the most innovative and proven technologies currently available. As a result, the company has made strong improvements on the battery life of tablets and laptops running Windows 8.
Average battery life time for the first core of Windows 8 laptops issued in December of last year was 5:09 hours. The Lenova Yoga ultraportable offered 6:18 hours, while the Toshiba U845W ran 6:28 hours. Presently, the Lenovo ThinkPad X230 provides 7 hours in its ultraportable frame. With the additional 9-cell battery, life extends to 12 hours. Coupled to special sheet-battery, the result is 20 hours.
Part of the core criteria that is helping spread the use and convenience of mobile technology is the length of battery life driving the various devices. Intel’s new Bay Trai series — quad-core, mobile Atom processors — promise not only to double processing ability and reduce power consumption, but to reduce the overall price of the devices as well.
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