B.Swart wrote: > The user manual of my laptop (Toshiba A10) states I should decharge the > battery every month. Unfortunately, I was ignoring this warning. Now, > after three years of "desktop usage", I can get about one to two minutes > out of it.... So scary indeed!
That's about normal. Li-ion batteries don't last much longer than that. > I haven't tried it myself, but is it > possible to plug into mains with the battery removed? On every laptop I've ever used. One interesting quirk - my wife's compaq, which is never used on battery (because the battery was already dead when we got it) immediately boots when it is plugged in if the battery is not present. When a battery (even dead) _is_ present, you have to plug it in and then press the laptop's power button. Many users wishing to extend their battery life never leave a charged battery in the laptop when it's plugged in (the fact that the battery gets hot from the CPU is more of a life-shortener than that it is being charged). I think that's not worth the convenience of built-in UPS. -- derek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
