Tips to take care of your Laptop

While your laptop is designed and tested to hold up to a lot of use, common sense should tell you that you should not misuse your machine. Follow the followings advices :-

Don'T :

• have liquids especially sweet, sticky drinks like soda, nearby when using your laptop. Spills can cause serious damage to the machine and can be very costly to repair
• Crush your laptop by stuffings too many books inside your backpack.
• Pile heavy objects on top of it.
• Leave a pen or pencil on your laptop when you close it. Doing so will break the screen.
• Use or store your laptop at temperature above 95 degrees F or below 41 degree F
• Disassemble and attempt to repair you lappy yourself.
• Leave the laptop's base directly on your legs for an extended period of time. It can get hot. You can use pillows between your legs and laptop.
• Place your Laptop closer to a electrical appliance generating strong electro-magnetic field , like refrigerator, television, etc.
• Touch Lens or surface of compact disk

DO :

• Condition your battery.
• Use a soft cotton cloth moistened with non-alkaline liquid to clean your laptop.
• Use a carrying case that provides good protection for your laptop.

Tips for charging the battery :-

You can use following power management techniques to help to extend the life of your battery :

Suspend Mode (Fn + F4) :-

Although your laptop appears to be powered down when it's in suspend mode, the machine's memory contents are actually kept active at very low power. You can bring your machine out of suspend mode by pressing any key. Your laptop can remain in suspend mode for about 3 days before that is battery is drained.

Hibernation mode (Fn + F12) :-

This mode uses no power until you restart your laptop; the machine stores its active memory to hard disk and then returns off the Thinkpad. Entering a single keystroke should bring it back up, without the need to reboot. Your Laptop can remain in Hibernation mode indefinitely. 
                                                             
                                                            - Avishek Shrestha