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Restore some life to your laptop's battery
Authored by: NetCurl on Feb 17, '03 11:29:45AM

I have a possible (and this is an outside shot) cause/reason for the battery degradation. I recently bought a 1Ghz TiBook. I noticed that in the manual, it mentioned that sometime in the first week of owning your laptop, you should "condition" the battery by running it all the way down, and then charging it back up. I do know that Lithium-ion batteries are *supposed* to be immune to the problems that previous Ni-Cd battgeries had, but I also know that they require conditioning like this in order to ensure proper use in the future.

I've never had any problems with my two TiBook batteries, and I'm not saying it's because I did this, but I believe that it might be a helpful aid in maintaining a healthy battery.



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