One life, one laptop…

Living with a laptop can be a beautiful thing. But how do you avoid those little mishaps that happen when you least expect them when trying to live your portable lie? Simple – follow these few simple steps to living a successful life with your fantastic, little, portable laptop;

Battery

When you’re on your travels with your trusty little laptop you are going to want to be able to stay connected for as long as possible – unfortunately you aren’t going to be able to do that if your battery dies after 15 minutes of use.

To extend your battery’s life remember a few simple tips – reduce your screen brightness, forget external devices that run off your battery, turn off Bluetooth and say goodbye to Wi-Fi if you don’t intend to use it. You never known when an extra 30 minutes of battery power will be needed so keep your battery happy.

Keyboard

There’s nothing worse than getting bits of dust and dirt in your laptop – you’ll find that bits of dirt will find their way in mainly through the gaps between your keys so go out of your way to protect them.

Go out an buy a keyboard cover – don’t have your heart broken if you spill a bit of coffee on the keyboard, potentially ruining your laptop forever! Fight off crumbs, dust, and general dirt.

Temperature

If your laptop is burning a whole all the way through your lap then do something about it – you don’t have to sit there quietly suffering in the corner…we’re not in the fifties anymore!

Use your laptop’s sleeve to stop the heat from destroying your legs – if you don’t have a sleeve and you don’t want to spend any pennies then use a pillow.

Safety

Joining a wireless network on the move can be quite a dangerous thing to do – people want to break into your computer and steal all your private files…don’t let them!

Set up a firewall and make sure no one can come in uninvited. Some users even go as far as to encrypt their important and private files – if you want to do that then go for it and you’ll be laughing when the guy sitting next to you is hacked!

Comfort

Wouldn’t you be gutted if you were too cheap to buy a proper case for your laptop and it dropped out of the towel that you normally carry it in, smashing on the ground? Of course you would…so go out and save yourself some grief!

Get a padded sleeve that fits your laptop comfortably – you can even get one that has been created by NASA and if they’re supplying some technology then don’t you feel like you should have it?

Remember…

The point of a laptop is to be mobile, comfortable and stylish – get it right and you’ll hit all these points…who wants a dusty, boiling hot and hacked laptop that doesn’t switch on because the battery has died? Follow these tips and you won’t have one…

What do you think?

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