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20 ways to increase laptop battery life

Mobile computing has got better with lighter components, better chips and faster processors. But the Achilles heel of a laptop has remained its battery. So here are we are going to look at ways to increase laptop battery life. Modern graphic intensive operating systems and resource hungry applications are cutting down the life of your laptop’s battery every day. The average battery life per continuous use still stands at a maximum of  three to four hours . So, a fast depleting battery could very swiftly put the crutches on your ‘mobile’ road trip. Falling just short of carrying an extra pack of batteries in the back-pack, are several ways to keep the juice flowing through the batteries. 1.  Ship shape with a defrag Regular defragmentation helps to arrange data more efficiently thus making the hard drive work less to access the data. The quicker the moving hard drive works lesser is the load placed on the battery. Thus, your batter can last longer. The effect is minimal, but t...