M-L wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 19:19, koffiejunkie shared this with us all: >> --} Is there anything I can do to improve this, or this battery just on the >> --} way out? I'm just bothered by the suddeness of this drop in battery >> --} life - it's been at about an hour for a good six months now, and stayed >> --} pretty stable. Unless some of the cells just died. >> --} >> --} Thanks > [...] > I have always found that to get the most out of the life of a laptop battery, > you have to run it right out, something that, I think, the latest windows > won't allow, till it just drops right out. This way there is no memory built > up, but when the battery finally does (*) really die. It's dead for ever. As > well you have to have a good filesystem like ext3 on the lappy, that will > recover from this kind of crash, and of course, manually save everything for > the last 3 minutes or so of battery life, and just play a game or something > till it crashes, with everything else shut down. The battery will then last > for years, or does in my case. I have to use laptops because we have solar > power, and have to husband our power and use it frugally.
This applies only to NiMH or NiCd batteries which were used in older notebooks, as far as I know. A good reference is Batteries in a Portable World. A handbook on rechargeable batteries for non-engineers http://www.buchmann.ca/ -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
