Laptop Battery

Calador · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: May 23, 2004 Posts: 573

It is said that you need to remove your battery when the laptop is running on AC power.. Is that true? On what basis does that degenerate the battery life span?
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Lucifer · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 8:33 am Post subject:

The reason i bought a laptop is to prevent data loss whenever there is power failure and by removing the batteries, what's the point of buying it?

I have heard that removing the rechargeable batteries if you don't use it for a long period (a month or so) will make the life span longer (maybe a little...)
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LiangZzZ · Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 9:41 am Post subject: Re: Laptop Battery

hotaru-san · newbie! Joined: May 19, 2005 Posts: 10 Location: Singapore

In the first place, if you're running on AC power, you wouldn't be needing your battery module, so give it a break. It can even be used as your backup source when you are not powered via AC later. Laptop battery modules tend to overheat as well. Be it laptop or mobile or anything else at that, what good will it do if you keep draining and charging your batteries simultaneously? It just doesn't make much sense to me Wink

kisu · newbie! Joined: Jun 22, 2005 Posts: 40

i agree with lucifer... i mean, if there was a sudden power-cut you would lose all your stuff because you dont have a battery

also, even tho liang is right and that you can recharge more if you deplete the whole battery before recharging, it's only a very little bit, and sooner or later, youd have to change the battery...

Calador · Naginata Ashigaru Joined: May 23, 2004 Posts: 573