On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 05:51:59PM +0000, john gennard wrote: > Just before Christmas, I bought a secondhand T20 > Laptop and installed Sarge which works fine. > > The vendor said there was a battery which 'worked > well'. Embarrassingly, I have so far always used the T20 > with the AC Adapter. However, last evening I decided to > use the battery to see how much time I would get from it.
The main problem with second-hand laptops -- and I suspect the main reason they get to be second-hand -- is usually the batteries. My local second-hand laptop vendor warrantees everything except the battery. -- hendrik > > Debian's monitor told me the battery was fully > charged, but, on starting I got a message 'Running off > Battery - 11 minutes left', two minutes later > 'Battery running out 0 minutes left'. It did give me > enough time to close everything and shut down. > > I've just recharged the battery which took just > over 23 minutes to reach 'fully charged'. Then switching > to it, in one minute I got 'Running off battery 11 mins > left' quickly followed by 'running out 0 mins left'. > > It would seem that I've been 'sold a pup', but > before getting a new one (assuming one can be found), I > just wondered if anything in the Debian software could be > misconfigured. The battery itself seems in almost pristine > condition to my inexperienced eyes. > > Can anyone offer any suggestions (solice is perhaps > too much to hope for). I've never had anything to do with > Laptops before, so I'm in the dark. > > Regards, John. > batteries can be obtained for old laptops, I'm told. For my aging Thinkpad, a new battery from IBM costs over $300 nowadays. A new laptop only about $1000, for a machine that's probably 200 times faster and 20 times the disk capacity. We use the old laptop with an AC adaptor when our regular computer has too many children using it. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
