Tips For Maximizing Your Apple Macbook Battery Charge

Optimize your Apple Macbook battery settings in Energy Saver settings to increase battery life.

1. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
   
2. from the View menu, choose Energy Saver.
   
3. Click to show details.
   
4. Select the battery or the "Settings for" pop-up menu.
   
5. Choose Longest or longer battery life than the optimization of energy Settings pop-up menu.

These settings will put the hard disk to sleep whenever possible and reduce the computer's microprocessor performance in order to maximize your battery life.

If you use a Mac-intensive applications, you May want to modify or change the settings so the microprocessor performance is no longer decreasing.

Set the screen brightness to the lowest comfortable level

Press F1 (dimmer) and F2 (brighter) keys to dim the screen when the brightness is as low as possible, but the screen is still enjoyable to watch.

Turn off unused features and technologies.

Just like you would turn off lights in unoccupied rooms, turning off unused features and technologies can help increase your battery life, too. Here are some suggestions:

• Eject CD and DVD are no longer in use. Every so often, the optical drive spins up to read CDs or DVDs. It consumes a small amount of energy.
  
• Turn off appliances when not in use. Connected peripherals such as printers and digital cameras, can draw power from the battery even when not using them.

If you are not at the point where you have to use the airport or Bluetooth, you can turn them off to save energy.

to turn off the Airport:

1. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
   
2. from the View menu, choose Network.
   
3. series the choice, choose Network Port Configuration.
   
4. Clear the airport from the list.
   
5. Apply now.

To turn off Bluetooth in Mac OS X 10.2 or later:

1. From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences.
   
2. from the View menu, choose Bluetooth.
   
3. Click on the Settings tab.
   
4. Click on Turn Off Bluetooth.

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