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Battery Life on 600m, How to Improve and Keep in shape ?
First, I bought this laptop under a week ago and I was not impressed that on a full charge and battery is new I only get 3 hours on it with Quickset set to MAX battery life. I was expecting more like 4hours.
Two things I want to enquire about.
A) Is there a way to increase battery life ?
B) I know these are LiON batteries, so they should have no memory.
i)- But Is it better to kill the battery before every charge ?
ii)- And take out the battery when I need to use it on AC Power
iii)- And Is there a program (my old laptop (Diff brand)) had a boot up CD that I ran once a month it would boot up from the CD and do some settings so the laptop would NOT shut off till the battery was completly dead and it would run the laptop doing useless cycles of processes till battery was dead and shut off then I plug it in to charge Does dell have a program like this ?
goden99
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December 11th, 2004 20:00
mattcowger
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December 12th, 2004 01:00
B1) No, killing it is the WORST thing you can do to a LiIon battery, and WILL destroy your battery quickly.
B2) You can, but theres no benefit to it.
B3) I dont know of such an application, but it would severly damage a LiIon battery. You do NOT want to run a LiOn battery to less than 5%
Power on status of the laptop doesn't matter to charging, but ti will charge faster with the laptop off.
Message Edited by mattcowger on 12-11-2004 07:43 PM
goden99
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December 12th, 2004 04:00
goden99
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December 12th, 2004 04:00
mattcowger
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December 12th, 2004 04:00
No need to leave the battery in with AC - it wont affect its life or performance. That, again, only applies to Nickel based batteries.