What you need to know about using your laptop while travelling and squeezing the maximum of your batteries.
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What you need to know about using your laptop while travelling and squeezing the maximum of your batteries.
If you have power management program on your laptop, pick “Long life”
Keep battery in room temperature – icy cold weather drink more juice – have you hear of “cold cranking power?”
Recharge battery full before your road trip
Buy a power inverter that you can plug into a car cigarette/power outlet
Bring a spare battery (cost you $80 to $200)
Bring the normal charger and recharge it at fast food outlet, gas station.
Turn laptop off when not in use
Use someone else laptop- for wireless communication
Get a 8 to 12 cell battery- get a Centrino Mobile type laptop
Print out the stuff you wanted to read from your laptop so that you do not have to power up the laptop.
Leave laptop at home