On 12/19/2014 03:11 AM, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > > > Just some questions: > 1) define newish. How old and if you know how many cycles? Les than 6 months, Probably less than ten cycles, none of them deep, except for one or two testing cycles
> 2) Is it original or a "genuine replacement" It is absolutely Genuine Replacement, since this laptop is out of production for some years. Guaranteed to exceed the original (a hollow promise, I'm sure) > Do you have a way of knowing the battery status without using the OS? No external battery lights or any such thing, so no. > > When it is 8%, how long can it actually run? then what happens BIP or a LED > turns on? Have not tried this, not wanting to fsck-over the file system. I've had other battery devices warn about exhaustion, but continue after operating after near 0 percent battery, and upon once doing that, their predicted runtime more closely matched the actual battery state. I've read something about "training the charge controller" about actual battery capabilities, but I'm not sure it was authoritative. I was planning to boot with some random Knoppix live CD to see if the behaviour was any different there, since its running all off of the CD in that case, no damage can be done. > > Riccardo > Thanks for your reply. I'll do some further testing. -- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
