Dne, 10. 12. 2009 16:53:49 je Paul Cartwright napisal(a): > > one of the things I was told to do, was while you run the laptop on > AC > power, > to unplug your battery.. this keeps it from being constantly in the > CHARGE > mode, and maybe helps it last longer.. just a thought....
I thought this should be taken care of by the charging circuit in the laptop: if I'm not mistaken, the charging circuit should put the battery offline when it's fully charged? > I have a > 4-year old > Dell XPS laptop that never lasts more than 2 hours on battery, but I > don't > use it much anymore, since I stopped travelling :) My sister has an even older Dell (it must be at least 5 or 6 years) which still lasts just under an hour on the *original* battery. In the meantime, I've had at least 3 or 4 batteries in two different Compaqs die on me. She never unplugged the battery in all these years; she couldn't care less, really ... -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
