[dba-Tech] Laptop Batteries

Jeese you are going to make us Gentiles start beleiving that Jewish
stereotype thing here again. Don't you ever pay for anything? ;-)

GK

On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
> I think I may talked the Dell tech rep into a replacement - he put two boys
> through college and has a soft spot for college kids.  Max uses his a LOT
> and usually on the battery because they take them to class.  Hopefully
> they'll replace the current 6 cell with a 9 cell.
>
> R
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 3:14 PM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Laptop Batteries
>
> I believe they are rated for a specific number of cycles. The more often you
> discharge and recharge the quicker they wear out.
>
> They usually offer upgraded batteries with more cells in them that would
> last longer since they wouldn't normally be as fully discharged.
> And many systems offer you a second battery so you could rotate them somehow
> although I don't know how you would recharge the "other one"
> while one was in the machine.
>
> Any battery powered device will eventually wear out the battery.
>
> I don't run my laptops on battery much, I generally have them tethered to
> their power cord 90% of the time, so I really have no idea of how long of
> life they had "before" or now for that matter. I think they only were good
> for about an hour or two when they were new.
>
> Much also depends on what kind of work you are doing. How many times it has
> to spin the hard drive etc. Or how computationally intensive the processes
> you are doing are. Laptops generally have power management set so that the
> chip runs SLOWER when it can to save power.
> I know my laptops were all set to run in a lower screen brightness under
> battery verses plugged in which was one reason I usually plugged it in.
>
> Buy another battery and keep the other one as a second.
>
> GK
>
> On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote:
>> Max's Dell laptop is 18 months old.  The battery life has declined to
>> about
>> 1 hour.  He does have the three year on-site warranty but Dell is
>> telling him that the battery isn't covered after one year.  Seems
>> rather mean to me but anyway - how much life can one expect from a
>> laptop battery?  This one is used a LOT.
>>
>>
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>>
>> Rocky
>>
>>
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