1. Don’t leave your battery plugged in all the time. Unless you own a Dell laptop, which means you can disable battery charging. I have an ASUS laptop, meaning I usually keep the battery at 40% and let it be in my cupboard. We do have electricity supply breaks, meaning my laptop shuts down abruptly. Yes, I do run the risk of corrupting my data, but it hasn’t affected me adversely much, so I’ve learnt to live with the compromise.<\/p>\n
2. Never let your battery take heat. ASUS has a reasonably insulated battery bay, meaning even after a few gaming sessions with my battery plugged, I touch the battery to find it to be barely above room temperature. However, my battery would stay at 100% charge then, and that’s detrimental to your battery. I know of a guy who owns a Dell XPS – the guy used to literally suffocate his laptop by playing games while it was on a pillow with his battery plugged in – and his battery’s useless barely a year after he bought the laptop.<\/p>\n
3. Don’t put high loads while running on battery power.
\nLithium-ion batteries like to be charged and discharged slowly. I haven’t EVER played games while my laptop is running on battery power, or run strenuous software – it’s always for using the internet or watching movies. I plug in a LAN cable to my laptop from the WiFi router because I sit at the same table – that saves overheads and energy. WiFi is pretty draining on batteries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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