Firstly with the battery, If you are consistently just running off the battery and only using the power adapter to charge then the life of your battery will be severely reduced. Li-Ion batteries have a certain number of charge cycles so if you're recharging from 20% every day then the battery will have a shorter life.
With the cooling, modern laptops use extremely powerful parts that run on high temps. The laptops of old had 'mobile' parts that weren't as close to desktop grade parts and they ran much cooler. You could ghet away with going years without having to repaste. Constant high temps will bake the thermal compound much quicker so repastes are suggested more often. Yeah, it's a PITA but it should make a big difference when done regularly.
Happily the temperatures are OK again. Repasting was helping. All good again.
So I have created this topic about a month ago. From that time my battery wear level grown by 7+ more percentage now I have more than 20% wear level within 7 months. Li-Ion batteries should have 2-3000 cycles. So the problem is what you said about Li-Ion batteries are not practically true. From 20-80% or less range is the better for the battery itself. Thats the purpose of a battery. It should be charged and discharged every day. This is a laptop... If I would torture my battery by letting it discharged completely or using it only from cable (letting it always on 100% is not good for the batteries) then I would agree with you, but the situation is not this. The dell application says my battery is ok. It is not!
Also my paint from the laptop is wears off after 7 months from the back of the laptop. So I would stay with this. For this ammount of money, they should make it in better quality.
I like this laptop either way because of its performance. I would say go for it, but watch for these things.
mattyb3
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September 8th, 2022 17:00
Firstly with the battery, If you are consistently just running off the battery and only using the power adapter to charge then the life of your battery will be severely reduced. Li-Ion batteries have a certain number of charge cycles so if you're recharging from 20% every day then the battery will have a shorter life.
With the cooling, modern laptops use extremely powerful parts that run on high temps. The laptops of old had 'mobile' parts that weren't as close to desktop grade parts and they ran much cooler. You could ghet away with going years without having to repaste. Constant high temps will bake the thermal compound much quicker so repastes are suggested more often. Yeah, it's a PITA but it should make a big difference when done regularly.
PopecRob
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October 19th, 2022 03:00
Just a quick follow up on the topic.
Happily the temperatures are OK again. Repasting was helping. All good again.
So I have created this topic about a month ago. From that time my battery wear level grown by 7+ more percentage now I have more than 20% wear level within 7 months. Li-Ion batteries should have 2-3000 cycles. So the problem is what you said about Li-Ion batteries are not practically true. From 20-80% or less range is the better for the battery itself. Thats the purpose of a battery. It should be charged and discharged every day. This is a laptop... If I would torture my battery by letting it discharged completely or using it only from cable (letting it always on 100% is not good for the batteries) then I would agree with you, but the situation is not this. The dell application says my battery is ok. It is not!
Also my paint from the laptop is wears off after 7 months from the back of the laptop. So I would stay with this. For this ammount of money, they should make it in better quality.
I like this laptop either way because of its performance. I would say go for it, but watch for these things.