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Tekzilla Daily - Notebook Battery Life

Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 – running time 00:36
Patrick explains the mysteries behind notebook battery life cyles.

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New York ( 0:08 ) battery life ( 0:11, 1:26 ) Patrick Norton ( 0:07 ) Rochester ( 0:08 )

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" But -- still daily I'm Patrick Norton -- in Rochester New York writes and after about eighteen months but notebook is battery life. Has a life -- about five minutes house you'd. Israeli guy you to fix it -- stuck buying new battery is thinking months old chances are you do need to buy new battery so practically long life for notebook battery. But even the slick is lithium ion batteries are only good for so many -- before you moment where amount yes over time you're gonna -- and shorter and shorter and shorter. So the more you is that notebook without power supplies has been right now all the way. The more often you basically go to a charge recharge cycle the shorter the better -- life would be. In terms of years not cycles and some notebooks haven't utility built into the bios and exercise battery units of missile went back. And an Apple machines those ten you can do something pretty nifty he opened the system profiler. You click power in the contents list system hardware section. And you can find this cycle count listed in the battery information section. Charge cycles and implement a 100% -- the battery capacity. You might be sixty to -- and 20% there but when you 200% -- count that as a cycle it is to show how heavily worked over your battery is. But generally speaking if you you know book on battery power constantly aware of that battery in short. Order or at least shorter than if you only occasionally use battery alone. I got from about three hours of battery life will under an hour less than eighteen months myself on one notebook. Happy shopping and remember to exercise your battery at least once a month for writing it council in support charge cycle. If you topped off all the time isn't the best -- Oh by the way you can also make your battery monitor reading correctly and one last thing he still looking mind batteries out of heat you magnified degrees. You don't want to really shorten battery life -- you run anyway it's not that bad okay. One last thing properly dispose of them battery when you replace it keep him out of landfill takes -- dot com is the place to find out more tips tricks -- how -- Got a tech question but it can want to share product you want reviewed email us at excellent revision --"

" But -- still daily I'm Patrick Norton -- in Rochester New York writes and after about eighteen months but notebook is battery life. Has a life -- about five minutes house you'd. Israeli guy you to fix it -- stuck buying new battery is thinking months old chances are you do need to buy new battery so practically long life for notebook battery. But even the slick is lithium ion batteries are only good for so many -- before you moment where amount yes over time you're gonna -- and shorter and shorter and shorter. So the more you is that notebook without power supplies has been right now all the way. The more often you basically go to a charge recharge cycle the shorter the better -- life would be. In terms of years not cycles and some notebooks haven't utility built into the bios and exercise battery units of missile went back. And an Apple machines those ten you can do something pretty nifty he opened the system profiler. You click power in the contents list system hardware section. And you can find this cycle count listed in the battery information section. Charge cycles and implement a 100% -- the battery capacity. You might be sixty to -- and 20% there but when you 200% -- count that as a cycle it is to show how heavily worked over your battery is. But generally speaking if you you know book on battery power constantly aware of that battery in short. Order or at least shorter than if you only occasionally use battery alone. I got from about three hours of battery life will under an hour less than eighteen months myself on one notebook. Happy shopping and remember to exercise your battery at least once a month for writing it council in support charge cycle. If you topped off all the time isn't the best -- Oh by the way you can also make your battery monitor reading correctly and one last thing he still looking mind batteries out of heat you magnified degrees. You don't want to really shorten battery life -- you run anyway it's not that bad okay. One last thing properly dispose of them battery when you replace it keep him out of landfill takes -- dot com is the place to find out more tips tricks -- how -- Got a tech question but it can want to share product you want reviewed email us at excellent revision --"