Tips for Extending Notebook Battery Life

Basically, these tips all boil down to one of just a few rules: 1) manufacturers are improving battery life, so new products have better battery life; 2) a well-maintained notebook is a battery-life-efficient notebook; and the 3) the more stuff you ask your laptop to do (multi-tasking, running CDs, etc.), the worse its battery life will be. A nice little primer . . .