It's just weird that in Windows I never had any problems with battery
life, in Linux it just drops from like 90%/88% right to 5%
If anything I'll just get a new battery, this one is orignal and the
laptop is a bit old...
On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:56, Vernon wrote:
> Matt wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the help, I'm going to cycle it a few more times then stick
> >to battery power only from now on
> >
> >On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 17:34, JamesS wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Laptop batterys are not made to keep 100% charged all the time. They often
> >>do exactly what you describe when they are. I try to run my laptops on the
> >>batterys and only charge them when they get very low. Once a week i will
> >>leave them on until they shut themselves off. The batterys seem to last much
> >>longer this way. My first laptop i kept fully charged and the battery only
> >>lasted a year before it would not take a charge at all.
> >>
> This is my main beef with laptops ... not the computers, but the battery.
> All that advanced circuitry but nothing that
> "stops charging the battery, and then recharges it when necessary".
> Of course this is a major appeal of laptops to the retail market ...
> "battery sales".
>
> But if it were engineered properly, you would _really_ be able to buy
> a laptop based on it's ability to recharge the battery the best.
>
> Two points:
>
> 1) the most convenient thing to do with any rechargable battery (laptop,
> cellphone, etc ...)
> --> leave it plugged in!
>
> 2) the worst thing to do with any rechargable battery (laptop,
> cellphone, etc ...)
> --> leave it plugged in!
>
> And I do not accept any pap about Lithium ion vs. NiCd ...
> friend of mine does rechargable battery development for Energizer ...
> he gave me the complete run down in detail ...
> it's the battery manufacturers and their agreements with OEMs
> which are my enemies on this planet.
>
> i.e. their continuing aggreements to sell inferior products without the
> accompanying
> circuitry/software to properly maintain your battery for the maintenence
> revenue.
>
> Vernon Singleton
> vsingleton@cfl.rr.com
>
>
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