Lee, Thanks for the link! Picked up good tips for future laptop battery use, as my info was not accurate.
Ciao for now! Cathy GREEN ;-) Atherton HS French 3000 Dundee Rd Louisville, KY 40205 502.485.8202ext204 fax 502.485.8985 cgreen1 at jefferson.k12.ky.us > ---------- > From: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu on behalf of Lee > Larson > Reply To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Sent: Monday, February 6, 2006 11:18 AM > To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Subject: Re: MacGroup: Mac Laptop Batteries [heur][bcc][faked-from] > > On Feb 6, 2006, at 10:39 AM, Marta Edie wrote: > > > I also was wondering how old a laptop must be to still belong to > > the new laptop kind, referring to Lee's remarks. On my G4 powerbook > > ( I have no idea and haven.t tried to find out as yet what kind of > > battery it has, but it is still the titanium thing, not the > > aluminum and lighter kind) I was also told that it would be > > better to let it run down once in awhile and not always keep it > > plugged in. So I let it run down into the 60th and then plug it in > > again. Is that low , medium or still high? We are dealing here > > with non specified amounts of time and charges, and I really don't > > know the category I would fit in. > > I did some Googling this morning and found a Web page that pretty > much agrees with what I wrote last evening, but gives more detail. > > <http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm> > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 28 at Pitt Academy, 6010 Preston Highway. > | The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> > | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20060206/7650dfa2/attachment.html
