It might harm your electric bill, but I've always left my laptops plugged in, even when powered down, with no adverse effect to battery or computer.
On the other hand, I've read that something like 10% of your home electricity usage is due to the various wall warts that stay plugged in, sucking down a few milliwatts 24x7, even when the device being powered is turned off. I'm probably worse than most since I've got four cell phone users in my house (with their chargers plugged in most of the time), routers, switches, DSL modem, Palm Pilot, five laptops, a couple of game consoles, wireless telephones, external hard drives...you get the picture. -Mike __________________ Michel David Lowe Purcellville, VA -----Original Message----- From: Computer Guys Announcements and Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bart Yount Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:55 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [CGUYS] Battery Question. Hi Folks, If you leave the battery charger/power unit on and always plugged into the notebook PC, even when the notebook is off, will that harm the battery, or notebook for that matter? Thanks Bart ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
