[H-GEN] Dell notebooks, a lap warming experience.

[Harry Phillips]

Quoting Russell Stuart <russell-humbug at stuart.id.au>:

>
> For some reason I can't fathom, leaving batteries in
> a laptop when it is connected to the mains reduces
> their life to approx 1 year - even if they are not
> used in that time.  I recently retired a laptop which

Is that all? I have seen laptops that have never been cycled, they are plugged
into the mains when installed and disconnected when they are being replaced.
After 2 years the battery will last about 10 minutes from full charge to going
flat.

At least once a week I will disconnect my laptop from the mains and wait until
it shuts down by itself before plugging it back in. I have an IBM laptop and
they come with a battery manager, it won't charge the battery if it is more
than 96%.

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Regards
Harry