Asus N56VZ Battery Life Optimization

First off I absolutely love my laptop but the biggest disadvantage (as most owners already know) is the battery life and unfortunately Asus does not offer a larger battery for our laptops.

Our only option is optimizing the batter life we already have. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to do this? Maybe a program that monitors the utilities or components in your laptop and allow you to turn off things that are consuming a lot of power.

Post up your solutions if you have any! Thanks in advance.

 

Here's a battery care guide you can peruse through: BatteryCare - Proper laptop battery usage guide

Also, some very in depth, but useful info here: How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries - Battery University

 

Go into the power management utilithy and go into advanced options.

Try turning down the processor speed. Get the hard drive to sleep sooner if you don't use it a lot. Turn down your screen brightness, turn off your video card if you're not using it (leave that for high performance mode).
I find that the screen brightness is key to battery life as is drive management.

Also remember to use the sleep button at the top right whenever you walk away from your notebook. Instant on works pretty well for me. The screen lock is the slowest part of the transition back.

I looked into a piece of SW from microsoft labs called jouemeter that promised to monitor all systems on a PC to help optimize the same way that android OS does, but it didn't seem to work.

Byt turning everythign down, I can get a little over 4 hours of living room surfing in...yes a full 5-6 hour evening would be REALLY NICE. wish quick fixes like an SSD could get us there. my cheap dell latitude work notbook will go 5+hrs NP.