Top 7 tips to improve Dell vostro 1310 laptop battery running time

Reasonably priced Dell vostro 1310 laptop attractive design, antiglare display, corporate-level security and support package focused on small business. Small-business owners who would otherwise buy a consumer laptop should consider the full-featured, 13.3-inch Dell Vostro 1310 notebook.

Dell Vostro’s six-cell battery lasted a respectable 2 hours, 28 minutes on our DVD drain test, putting it in the same range as the Toshiba Tecra M8 and nearly 40 minutes ahead of the Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 Battery. It’s also longer than average for a thin-and-light, especially one with discrete graphics.

Sometimes we found that the laptop battery running time can not get the maximum as the Laptop manufacture claimed. In Dell website the Dell 9 Cell extend Dell Inspiron 1520 battery can last 7 hours (so long time). But in our daily use the battery only can run 5-6 hours. Where did the rest 1 hours go? In fact the 7 hours is the standard time that the battery run in the strict situation.

Below AussieBatt list the strict situation for you to get back the lost 1 hours. To extend the laptop battery discharge time (maximum notebook battery running time),  please try the following tips:

1. Set the Control Panel – Power profile to Max Battery and use timeouts to hibernate the system when not being used for more than ten minutes or so.

2. Set the Dell vostro 1310 laptop battery settings so that the screen and hard disk are disabled after five minutes of inactivity.

3. Reduce the screen brightness as much as you can.

4. Switch off the wireless card whenever you are not using it that can save laptop battery power.

5. Disconnect any peripherals eg if you use a USB flash memory stick, copy any files you need and then unplug it. This can give an extra 20 minutes or so of use.

6. Do not connect PCMCIA cards (PC cards) unless you need to use them. Remove them when not needed.

7. Change the Control Panel – Alarm settings to their absolute minimum (eg 4%). This can gain an extra ten minutes of use (but the notebook may cut out suddenly if you have a degraded laptop battery).

Though the 7 tips above may reduce our laptop using experience , but to save the cost of buying another replacement laptop battery. We’d better follow the tips when using notebook with the laptop battery.