On 6/22/11 2:42 PM, Grigore Dolghin wrote: > The battery has a limited number of charge/discharge cycles. Each Standby > will consume one cycle, so if you do this often, the battery life time is > pretty short. Been there, done that. I managed to kill a battery in less > than 6 months. The next one is still performing normally after 3 years.
I've been using the same set of MacBook batteries for years, a couple of them for about 5 years now. When my Macbook runs out of power (2.5 +- hours depending on what I'm doing) I hibernate it and swap batteries, putting the discharged one in an external charger. I then unhibernate the computer and continue working. About a minute downtime. During work I frequently close the lid which suspends the computer (puts it in standby). I don't think this has affected my battery life one bit. After years of daily use, my batteries all still have probably 80% of their original life left in them. Paul _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
