How to increase battery life

I get only 90 minutes of battery life on my laptop and wanted to see if this was the norm or there were any ways to increase this. Thanks

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90 minutes of battery life is very good compared to most, unless you have the latest fueled battery. Normally a laptop can be set to turn off the wireless adapter when not in use and also the brightness level can be reduced and the processor speed can be set to low, enabling only word processing etc to be able to run at a reasonable speed.

Posted on Feb 01, 2007

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