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A simple trick to conserve laptop battery power
Authored by: gaoshan on Dec 08, '05 09:13:55AM

Have you tried refreshing your battery to increase the time it will last? It may not work but it did on a PC laptop I was brielfy forced to endure (and the PC had a similar type of battery). Here is what I did:
Let the battery run all the way down and put the computer to sleep automatically. Don't let it sleep/hibernate whatever until it does so itself due to low battery power.
Close the lid after this has happened to keep things shut down and plug in to begin charging the battery. Don't use the computer or open the lid until the battery is fully charged.
You SHOULD see an increase in battery time after this. Not sure how much but it should be more than a one time increase. It was in my case.



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A simple trick to conserve laptop battery power
Authored by: merlyn on Dec 08, '05 10:03:32AM
Have you tried refreshing your battery to increase the time it will last?
Thus perpetuating the Memory Effect Myth.

Please, don't do this. It's not needed. You're not helping the battery to do this: in fact, you're just burning up one more cycle towards battery death.

All you might achieve doing this is an apparent recalibration of the computation "time to battery drained" parameters, but it's not going to affect the actual battery one bit (except burning one more cycle).

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A simple trick to conserve laptop battery power
Authored by: newillmeister on Dec 08, '05 11:50:03AM
Be sure and read Apple's tips on how to maintain your battery:

http://www.apple.com/batteries/notebooks.html

I've 'boosted' my battery capacity by doing the recommended Apple routine. My battery will go from 77% down to about 73% of it's original capacity. If I discharge completely and recharge, then I can get it back up to 77% again.

I'm getting these readings using Coconut Battery:

http://www.coconut-flavour.com/coconutbattery/

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