Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-25 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/11/24 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:42 PM, David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all your answers, I guess my battery is getting on its end of life.. After running 30 minutes on battery, the percent is still 100% while the

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-25 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, David DEMELIER wrote: Thanks for all your answers, I guess my battery is getting on its end of life.. After running 30 minutes on battery, the percent is still 100% while the remaining time is slowly decreasing.. Aaaah buying a new battery costs around $134 !

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:17:37 -0600 Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: IIRC, there where some improvement to HEAD while ago that increased FreeBSD power usage efficiecy a non-negligible amount. Perhaps those improvements where MFC'd already, Google around either way as there are

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-24 Thread David DEMELIER
Hello, Thanks for all your answers, I guess my battery is getting on its end of life.. After running 30 minutes on battery, the percent is still 100% while the remaining time is slowly decreasing.. Aaaah buying a new battery costs around $134 ! I think I could live a few months before buying a

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-24 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:42 PM, David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for all your answers, I guess my battery is getting on its end of life.. After running 30 minutes on battery, the percent is still 100% while the remaining time is slowly decreasing.. Aaaah buying a new

How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread David DEMELIER
Hello I just realized that my HP laptop lost the half battery capacity. Take a look : mark...@melon ~ $ acpiconf -i 0 Design capacity:4400 mAh Last full capacity: 2132 mAh Technology: secondary (rechargeable) Design voltage: 14400 mV Capacity (warn):200

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Gatten
it run down 100%. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue Nov 23 15:34:16 2010 Subject: How long laptop battery should live ? Hello I just realized that my HP laptop lost

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Julian Fagir
Hi, I just looked into a batt for my daughters dell, her li-on lasted 14 months, now on full charge it only lasts 40 mins... Terrible. If you can get 2 years out of a batt ur lucky. I read some tech docs on li-on cells; if you can store at 50% charge in the fridge and when in use don't

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:09 PM, Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.dewrote: Hi, I just looked into a batt for my daughters dell, her li-on lasted 14 months, now on full charge it only lasts 40 mins... Terrible. If you can get 2 years out of a batt ur lucky. I read some tech docs on

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Gary Gatten
before you even get it. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Julian Fagir g...@physik.tu-berlin.de Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue Nov 23 16:26:42 2010 Subject: Re: How long laptop

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Chris Brennan
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Ditto, pretty much mirrors what I read. I forget the site, perhaps Panasonic? It was a cell manufacturer and published all sorts of data on different chemistry cells. Good info for my EV project too! And yes, many

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 338, Issue 3, Message: 12 On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:34:16 +0100 David DEMELIER demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: I just realized that my HP laptop lost the half battery capacity. Take a look : mark...@melon ~ $ acpiconf -i 0 Design capacity: 4400 mAh

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:55 PM, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: I'm guessing if this should be, the laptop has only about 8 months and I don't use it much on battery, only around one day per week and not until the battery is empty. If I remember correctly my old laptop didn't