MEANS TO AVOID NEEDLESS POWER USAGE OF PROCESSOR AND VIDEO CARD

Disable all needless programs, which run in the backdrop. Also minute tools in the task bar time and again need some percent of concert.

Decrease the flaunt brightness: Decrease the screen brightness as low as possible and still a pleasing working is probable. Good contemporary displays show clarity of over 150cd/m². If one does not use the notebook outside in fresh air or direct sunshine the intensity can be reverted back to 100cd/m². This can bank some watts. With the most recent tested mobile computer we could gauge a difference of 10 watts flanked by minimum and maximum intensity!
Enable current saving function: Current mobile video cards got individual current optimizing functions implemented. So one can border the performance, but also pin down the current need. Commanding graphic cards like NVidia go 7800gtx or ATI Radeon Mobility X800 require very high power. ATI names the current savings tasks "Power play" and boasts the battery overall runtime with the setting "optimal battery life" (about 4 watts of savings is possible when a system is coupled with a ATI X700). With NVidia graphics cards that cater to the same function is called "Powermizer".

Disable LAN and Bluetooth connectivity: If you do not require incorporated functions such as Wireless LAN, Bluetooth or infrared, twirl these functions to off condition (best by presented hardware switches) for contemporary current saving saving.