Buying and depending on an electronic device means depending on its battery. For Apple products, that battery is most likely a Lithium Ion Battery or Li-Ion.

Why the Li-Ion? It is said more power is packed into these nickel-based batteries than most. This means more power without sacrificing size and weight.

The life of your apple laptop battery will depend on how you use it. If you are watching DVD’s on your notebook, the battery will be sucked more quickly than if you are simply using a word processing program. This is obvious. But there are a few other tricks to preserving battery life in your Apple products as well. They include:

Notebook – With your notebook, one of the first things you can do to preserve your battery life is to keep it in a moderate temperature zone. This means not leaving it locked in your hot car in the summer or cold car in the winter. Your notebook and it’s battery should work best within temperatures of 50 degrees to 95 degrees. When you first buy your notebook, be sure to give it a full charge right away. With lithium-based batteries, it is also important to keep the electrons in it moving, this means not leaving your laptop plugged in all of the time. The ideal use of your Apple notebook is to combine use of it on the battery and plugged in, throughout the day.

Apple also recommends charging and discharging its battery at least once per month. If you are not using your notebook for more than six months, Apple recommends that you store the notebook with the battery at a 50% charge. Fully discharging a battery before storing it could make it incapable of holding any charge. Storing it full could create loss of battery capacity as well. Last, make sure your notebook’s settings are in an optimal place. For instance, turn on your energy saving option, dim your screen to the lowest possible comfort level, turn off AirPort Wireless if you aren’t using it as well as Bluetooth, and disconnect peripherals and quit applications when not in use.

iPod – Caring for your iPod battery is similar to taking care of your laptop battery – keeping your device out of the sun and within temperatures between 32 degrees and 95 is ideal. Apple suggests you should always update your latest software as engineers may find new ways to optimize battery performance. Use your iPod regularly to keep the electrons moving in the battery. One needs to be sure and go through at least one charge cycle per month. When you aren’t using your iPod, set the Hold switch. This will prevent your iPod controls from waking up and using unnecessary power. You can also optimize your settings on your iPod.

If you don’t use features such as Wi-Fi, Backlight, and Equalizer -your battery will last longer. Minimize the use of third-party applications, fetch data less frequently, and turn off push notifications. Limiting your fast-forwarding saves power as well as the iPod won’t have to fill its cache, which means it has to access your hard drive more often and use more power. Creating playlists is more preferable. Using compressed songs helps as well.

iPhone – Again, like the above devices, keeping your iPhone out of the car where it is exposed to very high or low temperatures will help preserve its battery. Optimize your phone’s settings and watch how much you use the features of your phone. Each time you retrieve email, for example, it affects your toshiba laptop battery life.

You can also turn off push notifications, fetch data less frequently, turn off push mail, minimize use of third party applications, turn off Wi-Fi, turn off Bluetooth, use Airplane mode, adjust brightness to dimmest setting, and turn off 3G. You will also want to lock your iPhone using Auto-Lock when not using it, this will turn it off more quickly after a period of inactivity. As with the other devices, you also want to use the phone regularly and go through at least one charge cycle per month.

By practicing these simple rules, you can make your Apple electronic device last longer with its Lithium Ion dell laptop Battery.

Chad Figueiredo is COO of Global Repair Solutions which specializes in BlackBerry repair. GRS is ready to serve your repair needs including iPod iPhone repair, and iPad repair. The expert technicians can diagnose and repair your device with no-hassles and at a competitive price.

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