Tips for Laptop on Cold Weather

Protecting your laptop from cold weather is important. Regular laptops have been designed to work within a safe temperature range, normally 50 to 95 degrees F (10 - 35 degrees C). There are some steps about how to protect your laptop during cold weather :

1. Heavy duty laptops have been designed to work under extreme weather condition. If you work outside, this laptop is strong to face bad weather.


2. Never leave a laptop, even in a well-padded and insulated laptop case in the trunk of vehicle in cold weather. The laptop could freeze and you lose all data contained in it.


3. If you bring your laptop in from cold weather, allow it to warm up to room temperature before booting. The same is true when you go outdoors, allow the laptop to adapt to the outside temperature before booting up.


4. It's better not to use devices such as mug warmers or pocket warmers to heat or keep a laptop warm. They could heat the wrong parts of a laptop or cause it to generate too much heat and melt internal components. There are laptop warmers designed specifically for the purpose of keeping a laptop warm. Laptop warmers have been tested to ensure they will safely protect your laptop and are a wise investment.


5. Do not use your laptop while it is still inside a laptop bag because there is no room for air circulation, otherwise your laptop will be damaged from heat. You can create your own box for your laptop which will allow air to circulate and provide an enclosed area for you to use your laptop. This laptop box will help to keep the laptop warmer.


6. Allow the display to warm on its own and do not boot up a laptop if you suspect the display is frozen.


7. Instead of having the hard drive shut down, keep it spinning. The longer the laptop can be kept left running, the warmer it will stay as it generates its own heat.


8. If your laptop has frozen, don't take it directly into warm place because the screens could shatter from thermal shock.