Tricks to improve Dell XPS 13 laptop battery life

Dell XPS 13 offers strong performance and long battery life in an incredibly compact design with a gorgeous Infinity display. When you use XPS 13, its endurance will vary, based on the screen brightness, the workload and your configuration. Today AussieBatt battery experts share some useful tips to extend your Dell XPS 13’s laptop battery life.

Ways To Extend Dell XPS 13 Laptop Battery Runtime

Lower Laptop Performance – Dell XPS 13’s battery settings offer an option to lower your TDP, which stands for Thermal Design Power. This is the highest amount of heat that your CPU will produce when running, and the CPU tends to produce more heat at high performance level. If you lower your TDP, your CPU won’t perform as strongly, but it may save some laptop battery life.

Dim Laptop Screen – The display on the XPS 13 can get quite bright, registering 318 nits on our light meter. The display is one of the largest Dell xps 14 series(all) battery power drains on any laptop computer, and keeping it at 100% brightness is a sure way to burn through your laptop battery.

While the computer lasted an impressive 11:54 at 100 nits, you might want to dim it further if you’re in a pinch. We tried dimming it to 10 percent, which was dark but still legible, and the laptop ran for ran 38 minutes longer, a total of 12:32.  Some users might max out their brightness, but that won’t help your battery usage. When we ran our tests at 100 percent brightness, the laptop ran for 9 hours flat, losing almost three potential hours of use.

Change Wi-Fi Networks – AussieBatt notebook battery experts run our laptop battery test on a 802.11ac Wi-Fi network, which is the latest version of the wireless standard. Typically, 802.11ac connections require less battery power than older networks, such as 802.11n. If you have an 802.11ac network, try to keep your XPS 13 connected to it for a potential Dell xps m140 battery bump.

Still, you want to squeeze every last drop out of the battery, so we ran more tests to find the battery settings that will make your XPS 13 last the longest on a single charge. Find out how turning down the brightness, tweaking the power settings or making other changes can give you longer Dell XPS laptop battery endurance.