Often times the applications that come along with Windows are just not quite as good as you really want them to be, and for myself, this happened to be the case with my just about dead Dell battery. I needed something that showed me how much power it had, and I needed something super specific for when I am working with customers. I don’t want to look like a fool and have my laptop die on the job!
So I did some snooping around, and luckily I found BatteryBar. BatteryBar works for all flavors of Windows, but since I am currently running Windows 7 that is what I was focused on. The information that shows on the taskbar is concise and to the point, and of course you can always get more information with a small, short, single click. It is simple and straight-forward which is great.
If you really like BatteryBar, you can purchase the full version which offers some nice alarms and also some cool styles. It is a really nicely laid out business model that basically asks you how much you want to pay. It costs between $1 and $10. A lifetime subscription costs $6 at minimum, and $10 at maximum. If you are going to purchase it I don’t see why $10 would hurt too much.
All in all it’s a great, simple application that gets extremely specific and really lets you know the skinny about your laptop’s battery. It is worth the download, and if you use your laptop on battery power often, it might even be worth the purchase.
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