[access-uk] Re: surely not?

  • From: "Christopher Hallsworth" <chrishallsworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:33:45 +0100

I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro A100, and what I do is that I let it do a
complete charge/discharge so that the battery life can be preserved. Is
this OK, as I was told to do this from the Toshiba user manual. Thanks
for any help.
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 11:59:52 +0100, "Tristram Llewellyn"
<tris-l@xxxxxxxxxx> said:
> I have an old Toshiba Tecra circa 2002 that has spent most of it's life
> on the mains with occasional battery excersions.  My battery is far from
> useless though after 4 or more years you may not be able to expect 100
> percent charge but it is still pretty close.
> 
> My advice would be a take it off mains every now and again and run off
> battery once in a while that way the battery gets a bit of exercise and
> will stay good enough should you ever need it.
> 
> Regards.
> 
> Tristram Llewellyn
> Sight and Sound Technology
> Technical Support
> www.sightandsound.co.uk
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Ray's Home 
>   To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
>   Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 11:44 AM
>   Subject: [access-uk] Re: surely not?
> 
> 
>   Billy, using your laptop for wireless internet fould well help run your
>   laptop battery down quicker - one more device needing power.  I believe
>   some people turn off the screen on a laptop to conserv battery life.
> 
>   To your second question, the Answer is 'yes'.  This came up on list
>   very recently where many reported their laptop batteries were almost
>   useless because of continuous use on the mains and the battery getting
>   cooked through over charging.  Seemingly, few laptops have the
>   'intelligence' to know when enough is enough.
> 
>   By the by, this message is by way of a sort of test.  I'm still
>   experiencing email problems with Plusnet and it'll be interesting to
>   see how quickly this message reaches the list.
> 
>   From Ray 
>   I can be contacted off-list at: 
>   mailto:ray-48@xxxxxxxx 
> 
>     -----Original Message-----
>     From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
>     Behalf Of TrueBlue
>     Sent: 02 October 2006 10:47AM
>     To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>     Subject: [access-uk] surely not?
> 
> 
>     hi guys, 
>     surely this can't be true. 
>     I have been told from people on other mailing lists, that if yu
>     connect yur laptop wirelessly to the Internet, it will run down the
>     Laptops battery, quicker than using a ethernet cable.
>     Can this be really true?. 
>     Also on the same list, the suggestion is that it is a bad Idea to run
>     the Laptop VIA the power adaptor. 
>     Finally, is it better to purchase an external Laptop keyboard?. 
>     Billy   
>     Billy 
> 
> 
> 
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