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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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