Maximize your Mac’s Battery Life to its fullest

You can increase or maintain your battery life just by takeing care of few things. You should also keep updating your software and make sure to have latest software because Apple keeps releasing updates from time to time that can play role in improving battery performance.

Maximizing Mac’s Battery Life to its fullest Will Keep Mac Running efficiently:

1. Calibrating New Mac's Battery

After buying new Mac, you should calibrate its battery within 2 weeks of buying it. Firstly, charge it fully before doing anything with it and make sure to use it after disconnecting its adaptor.

Second calibration method: when a battery level goes down and shows pop up messages for shutting down and finally goes to sleep mode, quitting all the current applications. This is the stage when the battery goes drained out and needs calibration.

2. Turning off settings and certain apps:

Turning off certain control panel settings and applications lengthens battery life on Mac. Often people leave their DVDs in machine even after watching movies. Although it doesn't harm the RAM but keeps consuming bits of battery power. So,remember to eject the DVD once after completed to extend your battery time.

There are lots advantages of control panel settings. First, dimming the screen to your comfortable level help in maximizing your battery life.

When you are not working on Mac, you can put it into sleep mode. To do this go to­-­­­-

'System Preferences,'then --> click on Hardware and press 'Energy Saver'.

You have two options:-

• Computer Sleep
• Display Sleep

We can also change time that we want it to for sleep after some time of inactivity. The lower the time is, the better it will be for your battery life.

Mac in Sleeping mode still using power;

People generally have big misconceptions that after putting Mac to sleep mode it is not using power. It doesn't save any power into Sleep Mode as your applications and files are still running. So. if you go somewhere for long duration, it is better to just shut down your Mac. This is good for both, your Mac and its battery.

Maximizing your battery life to fullest not only make your machine healthy but also make you wealthy. Mac batteries cost about $80 from Apple store. If you work on your notebook for a very very long duration and that is in your habit then you must follow aforemetioned steps.