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I have installed BatteryBar on my NC10 and I find it is a great, little program. I noticed one of the many notification types available is “battery wear” and currently the wear of my battery is 3.8%.
I was wondering whether many other users have installed this or other apps, and noticed what the battery wear was of their battery?
lozza69er and Freddy, how many times have you recharged you battery? I have only recharged mine 3 times in total, as I haven’t used my NC10 that much.
Isn’t this the bugbear of all laptop batteries. They apparently have no “memory” these days but ineviteably decline over time. I am resigned to it after having the last laptops battery go from a healthy 4 hours to around 1.5 hours in 12 months. Ultimately it lasted about 15 minutes even though I almost exclusively used mains power throughout ownership.
Its only an opinion but with something like the NC10’s battery duration any decline is going to very noticeable timewise.
The thing to remember with laptops/netbooks is, if its used predominantly on the mains – TAKE OUT THE BATTERY
If its used battery only, just use the charger to charge it, then let it run down naturally.
This is the only way to prolong the life of a battery, or the constant trickle effect will in-time make your battery useless.
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The thing to remember with laptops/netbooks is, if its used predominantly on the mains – TAKE OUT THE BATTERYIf its used battery only, just use the charger to charge it, then let it run down naturally.
This is the only way to prolong the life of a battery, or the constant trickle effect will in-time make your battery useless.
[/quote1227829281]How do you use an NC10 without a battery? – It forms the back two legs? I will try more battery useage.
Since I’ve had my NC10 for almost a month now and always run on battery I recharge mine quite often, almost every day. I have not seen any decline in batterypower yet. I get over 7 hours with “normal use”, i.e surfing wireless, sometimes during that time watching some movieclips and listening to music.
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lozza69er and Freddy, how many times have you recharged you battery? I have only recharged mine 3 times in total, as I haven’t used my NC10 that much.
[/quote1227831367]Fair point about the battery being quite important to stability. I’m sure there is a way round that but it’s not ideal. I think I’ll just mostly use mine away from the mains and run it down. Sooner or later spare batteries will be around for a good price. I hope!
I have have only been charging mine and using the battery, i never run it from the mains while the battery is fully charged. I suppose i have done quite a few charge cycles, as i have owned my NC10 since the 3rd November.
I am not too bothered, my dell laptop battery lasted 1 year and a half before the battery was losing its charge rate. I plan on buying a couple more 6 cell’s for the NC10 when they become available.
Ah great, this thread has helped a lot. I was freaking myself out not knowing whether I was doing more harm than good with my choice battery usage. I read somewhere that it was good to keep the ‘trickle’ effect with these batteries, so have had my sammy plugged in the mains most of the time, WITH the battery still in though. As soon as I read this thread I just yanked that cord out! Thanks for the advice!
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