extending battery life on an ultrabook!
August 8th, 2016
things I’ve done:
1:change windows 7 power plan to “power saver”.
2:turned on “high contrast”.
3:turned off “wireless”.
4:turned off “task scheduler”.
5: muted the “sound”.
6: set the lowest “screen brightness”.
7:stopped “startup” items and background processes.
anything else I should know? I’m only asking here because I know some of you use laptops.
cheers!
You could underclock and undervolt things (if possible) if you are really desperate.
There’s not much more you can do diminishing returns, unfortunately battery life on the ultrabooks can’t really compete with ARM.
Having adobe creative cloud on a portable device is nice but it’d be ether to scrap it for a win rt device and get 3-5 extra hours juice
^I have no idea what you’re on about.
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/windows-rt-faq
Its basically windows on an ARM chipset ie the same kind android tablets use and with the same battery life.
You cant run photoshop on them but they have 9-10 hours of juice as apposed to 3-6 with a laptop/ultrabook
also if you want to make sure that your battery lasts longer in general be sure to apply the 20-80 rule. Never charge your battery at 100% (always to 80%) and plug it in when it reaches 20%. Also make sure to unplug your battery at home or when you don’t need want to carry the laptop around . Also set ‘wireless adapter settings” to medium/low power savings and be sure to turn off the bluetooth.