Practical Tips for Caring Notebook

Some practical steps below maybe you could try to take care of your notebook.

1. Caring for notebook chassis
Casing is the notebook that relate directly to the outside world (dust, moisture, and temperature). Because of that, regularly, clean up your notebook casing using a soft cloth moistened with a little detergent. Instead, use a detergent that does not contain an alkaline substance. It would be better if you use a special cloth that can be obtained in computer stores.
Also, the casing seems to be always new, avoid scratching the casing with a sharp object or pour liquids such as glue onto it. If you want to travel, put your notebook is always on the container / bag that had been provided.

2. Caring Screen
Most notebooks use LCD (liquid crystal display) or liquid crystal display. Even as reflected in its name, the LCD is formed by liquid crystal to generate an image. Because thin or fragile keep the screen is not exposed to sharp objects that could cause particular holes or scratches. If you need something on the screen pointing fingers or pens premises, keep a pen or a finger is not on the screen or push too hard. To clean the screen, use a dry soft cloth. Remember not to press too hard when cleaning the display screen. Clean the screen from one direction, for example, from top to bottom or from left to right.

3. Caring batteries
a. We began to fill the batteries, do not use fully charged batteries before. If you use a new battery that will contain the first time, the battery was fully charged may not be entirely due to the characteristics of the chemicals in it. For optimal performance, all battery cells must be activated. The trick is to fill and emptying your notebook batteries three times in a row. This also applies to the old batteries stored or unused for few months.
b. If you use Hydrida Nickel Metal battery (Ni-MH), try to empty your battery fully every some time (weeks / months) once. This total evacuation marked hibernation mode or battery indicator shows level 0%. In this situation, you can plug the adapter and charge your notebook battery until the indicator shows the level of 100%.
c. If you plan to store your notebook in a long time, remove the battery from the notebook and store in a cool and dry. Places that could be used to store these batteries such as air-conditioned room or a space with good air circulation.

4. Caring for notebooks in general
Notebook composed of various electronic components whose performance is affected by temperature. Temperatures that are too extreme (e.g. too hot or too cold) can affect the performance or even damage the notebook. Therefore, do not leave your notebook in a car parked in the sun. Excessive heat can damage the car components in a notebook.
Moreover, to protect the existing data in your hard disk, do not place the various devices that contain or produce a magnetic field / strong electromagnet around your notebook, producing devices such as speakers of this magnetic field is not shielded (unshielded speaker system) or mobile phone. If you want to access the Internet using an infrared facility on the phone, put the phone within a distance of about 15 cm from your notebook.

Another thing that is not less important is the consideration to not turn off the notebook when the hard drive light is still blinking. If the light is still blinking like this, it means your hard drive is doing the activity. The loss of power suddenly (e.g. when the notebook is turned off) can cause damage to data or interruption on hard drive performance. Make sure that the hard drive light and hard drive is dead you have to stop the move before you shut down the notebook. And if you want to move or enter a notebook into the bag, make sure that your notebook is turned off.

If treated carefully, can keep high performance notebook after all these years. Remember that if we keep running perfectly notebook after all this time, we alone who will feel the benefit.