{"id":1233,"date":"2014-07-20T02:46:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T02:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2014-07-20T02:46:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T02:46:29","slug":"simple-steps-to-boost-toshiba-satellite-c655-laptop-battery-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/simple-steps-to-boost-toshiba-satellite-c655-laptop-battery-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Simple Steps to Boost Toshiba Satellite C655 Laptop Battery Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba Satellite C655 isn&#8217;t a laptop you&#8217;re going to want to show off at the office or coffee shop, but for only $399, it offers basic functionality and surprisingly decent laptop battery life. No matter how good your\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/toshiba-laptop-battery\/satellite-c655.html\">Toshiba Satellite C655 Laptop Battery<\/a> is, it&#8217;s still easy to run out of power by day&#8217;s end. Today AussieBatt laptop battery experts share some ways to keep your Toshiba satellite laptop running, and please remember following 3 simple tips the next time you travel.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drop the Toshiba Satellite C655 Laptop screen brightness<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You can afford to keep screen brightness cranked up when your laptop is plugged into an outlet, but not when you&#8217;re flying coach. Drop the brightness setting a few notches, then get back to work. Chances are you&#8217;ll hardly notice the difference. Then drop it a few more notches. The lower, the better.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Toshiba PA3817U-1BRS Laptop Battery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/toshiba-laptop-battery\/pa3817u_1brs.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1234\" src=\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/toshiba-pa3817u-1brs-battery.jpg\" alt=\"toshiba-pa3817u-1brs-battery\" width=\"550\" height=\"359\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/toshiba-pa3817u-1brs-battery.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/toshiba-pa3817u-1brs-battery-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/toshiba-pa3817u-1brs-battery-150x97.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Disable Bluetooth and Wi-Fi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Few airplanes offer Wi-Fi (yet), so turn off your Toshiba satellite laptop&#8217;s power-sucking Wi-Fi radio. Same goes for Bluetooth.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch downloads, not DVDs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"summary\">15-inch<\/span> Toshiba Satellite C655 Laptop is great for watching movies, the one bright spot in the Satellite C655&#8217;s performance is its battery life. In our video-playback\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/toshiba-laptop-battery\/pa3817u_1bas.html\">Toshiba PA3817U-1BAS Battery<\/a> drain test, it ran for 4 hours and 23 minutes, but DVD drives consume a considerable amount of battery power. Therefore, leave the DVDs behind and choose digital downloads instead. Stock your hard drive with movies from Amazon or iTunes and you&#8217;ll be able to watch longer. Don&#8217;t want to pay for movies you already own? Use a tool like Handbrake to rip your DVDs, creating MPEG-4 files you can store on your hard drive (or put on your iPod, thus saving your laptop even more power).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toshiba Satellite C655 isn&#8217;t a laptop you&#8217;re going to want to show off at the office &hellip; <a title=\"Simple Steps to Boost Toshiba Satellite C655 Laptop Battery Life\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/simple-steps-to-boost-toshiba-satellite-c655-laptop-battery-life\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Simple Steps to Boost Toshiba Satellite C655 Laptop Battery Life<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,4],"tags":[778,772,777],"class_list":["post-1233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-battery-knowledgebase","category-battery-wiki","category-how-to","category-laptop-battery-tech-tips","tag-boost-toshiba-battery-life-tips","tag-toshiba-pa3817u-1bas-battery","tag-toshiba-satellite-c655-laptop-battery-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aussiebatt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}