Lithium batteries are resilient to the charge/discharge issues associated with
earlier batteries. Generally, you want to replace batteries after about 18
months, because that's when depreciation sets in.
Sincerely,
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From: Brian Desmond
Sent: Tue 12/12/2006 7:49 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life
I have this model too. Kill the Wifi and Bluetooth for starters. Wifi is Fn+F2
I think.
Next, get a media bay battery from Dell - it can give you several (up to 4)
more hours in my experience.
I go through batteries pretty quickly - I think I killed the media bay battery
(or at met its half life) in about 6 months. A combination of desk work and
being mobile does this because of the uneven discharge/charge cycles. You can
either be real meticulous about taking care of the batteries or start hitting
your IT department up for new ones.
Thanks,
Brian Desmond
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Noah Eiger
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2006 10:33 PM
To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org
Subject: [ActiveDir] Way OT: Laptop Battery Life
Hi -
When I travel with my standard issue Dell D600 (1.5GB RAM), I get maybe two
hours out of a fully charged battery while doing standard Word, Excel, Outlook
stuff. Throw in Visio or (ugh) Quickbooks and cut that time in half. Sometimes,
I try to disable services that I know I will not need on the plane (does
antivirus really need to autoprotect on the plane?), but I can't tell you that
this actually gives me any more battery.
Any recommendations for battery-life extending tricks, tools, services to
disable, etc? Greatly appreciated as I head across the country for the late
December boogie.
Thanks.
-- nme
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