I agree with Jijo's answer, though personally, I don't really follow what he wrote. Using your notebook with the battery and plugged to a power supply would shorten your battery life, rendering it useless after some time.
What I do to drain the battery is to make it do some work. (In my case, edit some movies and save them.) The notebook would usually warn me at 15%, but I wait for the battery to be down to 5%, then I charge it. I have gone dead with my laptop only once though. But taking the battery out while plugged is a good idea. Jimmy From: "Federico Sevilla III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 07:50:23PM +0000, Gerald Timothy Quimpo wrote: > > What's a good way to zero a laptop battery? Long ago, when batteries > > were still Ni-Cd i destroyed a hard drive by just keeping the computer > > on battery power until it would go off by itself because there was > > just no more power. > > > > But i think i'd like to zero my battery maybe once a month. What > > would be a good way to do this? > > - when possible, he does not use the battery (eg: when he's > connected to a UPS-powered outlet in the office), he removes the > battery and works purely from the power outlet. > - when he uses the battery, he does not charge it at the same time. > - when he uses the battery, he drains it until the PowerBook > automatically sleeps with the last reserve power in it, then he > charges it fully. > > This is what i do with my cellphone, too, except I always use the > battery, and always use it until the thing dies. -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
