On 24 Sep 2004, at 2:47 pm, D. G. Bowie wrote:
Is it a good idea to occasionally exhaust the battery, as I've sometimes heard with regard to portable phones and other household appliances?
Nickel-Cadmium batteries benefit from being fully discharged from time to time, but that doesn't apply to Lithium-ion batteries, like the one in your Powerbook, which prefer a partial discharge. See here for more detail:
http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm
Miche.
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