Laptop battery life
I don't mind either way, would just like to know in case I'm worrying unnecessarily :)
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An article on eHow, however, states that, while leaving a laptop plugged in most of the time will not damage its internal components, it will gradually reduce the charge-holding capacity of the battery if it's left installed. See: http://www.ehow.com/about_4596490_keeping-laptop-plugged.html
This was not my personal experience, however. But maybe mine was unusual. I had an HP laptop, by the way.
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I don't 'deep cycle' them (run them down fully) But down below 50%.
I keep my MacBook Pro plugged in all the time and when I need to run on battery, its seems to do just fine. (its about a year old)
I'll also just unplug every once in a while to 'exercise' it
Also the typical life of a lithium battery is about 2 years, so anything past that is gravy.
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Use this link :
http://www.pbus-167.com
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I was looking around to see if I could find a consensus about whether it's better to remove a laptop battery when the laptop is plugged in, but it seems that the battery will degrade either way and most people don't bother.
Here's a discussion about this topic, in which I found the last post to be the most helpful, because the guy is obviously an expert on Lithium batteries: http://forums.dealmac.com/read.php?4,2628755,2628755
If you do want to remove the battery, though--which, if done right, seems like it can prolong its charge-hold capacity "life"--here are instructions: http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/usingyourlaptop/f/laptopbattery.htm
Hope that helps!
Ah, you see I was going to get an HP as everywhere I went I was told they are the best at the minute for what I need but unfortunately they didn't have one to suit my budget so I got a Toshiba.
Thankyou for your answer, it's pretty much as I suspected - keeping it plugged in can diminish the power of the battery but this is not the case every time.