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<\/a>Lower Laptop\u00a0Performance –\u00a0<\/strong>Dell\u00a0XPS 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.<\/p>\nDim Laptop\u00a0Screen –\u00a0<\/strong>The display on the XPS 13 can get quite bright, registering 318 nits on our light meter.\u00a0The display is one of the largest Dell xps 14 series(all) battery<\/a>\u00a0power drains\u00a0on any laptop computer, and keeping it at 100% brightness is a sure way to burn through your laptop battery.<\/p>\n 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. \u00a0Some 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.<\/p>\n Change Wi-Fi Networks<\/strong> –\u00a0AussieBatt notebook battery experts\u00a0run 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<\/a>\u00a0bump.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"