| Maximize your Apple
MacBook Electric battery
Optimise
your Apple MacBook Air electric battery settings in
Energy Saver preferences to realise battery life.
From the Apple menu, take System
Preferences.From the View menu, choose Energy Saver.Click
Show Details.Choose Battery or Electric battery Power
from the "Settings for" pop-up menu.Choose
Longest or Better Electric battery Life from the Optimize
Energy Settings pop-up menu.
These settings will put the hard
disc to eternal sleep whenever possible and lose weight
the computer's microprocessor surgical process in
order to maximize its electric battery life.
If you are using intensive mac applications,
you may wish to qualify or change the settings so
the microprocessor performance is no longer reduced.
Set your screen brightness to the
littlest wanton level
Press the F1 (dimmer) and F2 (brighter)
keys to dim the screen out until the brightness is
as low as possible and the screen is still easy to
look at.
Turn off fresh features and technologies.
Just as you would turn off the lights
in an unoccupied room, turn off unused features and
technologies can help maximise your battery life,
too. Here are a few suggestions:
Throw out CDs and DVDs you're no
longer using. Every so often, the visual drive spins
up to read CDs or DVDs. This consumes a small sum
of power.Disconnect peripherals when you're not using
them. Connected peripherals, such as printers and
digital cameras, can draw power from your electric
battery even when you're not using them.
If you're not in a locating where
you need to use AirPort or Bluetooth, you can turn
them off to keep power.
To turn off AirPort:
From the Apple menu, take System
Preferences.From the View menu, choose Network.From
the Show selection, take Network Port Configuration.Uncheck
Airport from the list.Click Apply Now.
To turn off Bluetooth in Mac OS
X 10.2 or later:
From the Apple menu, take System
Preferences.From the View menu, take Bluetooth.Click
the Settings tab.Click Turn Bluetooth Off.
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