General Laptop Care Advice

[Seb T]

Hi everyone

I've just recently ordered a laptop from PCS and this will be the first laptop I've owned in a long time.
I was just wondering if there's any tips you'd like to share about general caring for laptops to get as much time and performance out of it as possible.
One thing I was wondering specifically is, is there a general consensus on what the best thing for charging your laptop is? Keep it on charge all the time, let it run out of battery completely and then charge it and cycle through it like that or keep it between 40-80% whenever possible or anything like that?

 

[SpyderTracks]

Hi everyone

I've just recently ordered a laptop from PCS and this will be the first laptop I've owned in a long time.
I was just wondering if there's any tips you'd like to share about general caring for laptops to get as much time and performance out of it as possible.
One thing I was wondering specifically is, is there a general consensus on what the best thing for charging your laptop is? Keep it on charge all the time, let it run out of battery completely and then charge it and cycle through it like that or keep it between 40-80% whenever possible or anything like that?

Regarding battery, I’ve found the following:

when you’re near a power source use it, but don’t leave the power brick switched on while the laptop is not in use, ie power off the laptop and don’t leave it on sleep, and turn the power brick off at the wall.

IMHO only use battery when you really have to ie travelling.

if it’s a gaming laptop then you’ll need to do annual maintenance on it which means removing the rear panel and blowing dust out with compressed air.

Then every once in a while (when your temps start to increase) you’ll need to repaste the cpu and/or GPU.

Always keep an eye on temps, so have something like hwmonitor installed and available and consistently check thermals to make sure they’re within limits.

This are the main things. Temps are the most important factor to breakages, so best to monitor them closely.

 

[Charlas]

There's a couple of apps that can help 'manage' the windows power services and battery, for the most part it's a semi manual process, but things like Save Battery (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/save-battery/9nblggh5prjf?activetab=pivot:overviewtab) along with other apps that have a lot more depth to them can help manage the charge cycles.

But as @SpyderTracks says, when you turn it off unplug it as a rule, and use the battery when you need to, after all never get all the performance out of the machine on battery