On Monday 19 January 2009 13:24:03 [email protected] wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on 01/19/2009 > > at 12:13 PM, Chris Schumann <[email protected]> said: > >STeve Andre' wrote: > >> If the disks are powered down and the LCD display is off, then you could > >> leave it on for months with no ill effects, *if* the battery is out. > >> Absolutely no company does really correct battery charging, so if the > >> unit is on for a long time the battery is going to die. > > > >Just to stress this, only the battery will suffer from this. The rest of > >the machine will be fine. If you need the machine on, and the battery to > >be present for whatever reason, replacement batteries will be part of > >the cost. > > I've never had a problem leaving a battery in any Thinkpad. What are you > people talking about? > > >Chris
The battery is trickle-charged when you are using AC power. If you use the laptop for long periods of time and never use the battery, you will find that the battery doesn't have as much life as it should, after say half a year or so. I've seen this at work too, between those who use their laptops as portable desktops vs. mobile units powered by their battery. --STeve Andre' _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
