[Ti] battery in AlBook17

[Kynan Shook]

This is a behavior actually designed to prolong the battery's lifetime. 
  It was a change made around the Gigabit models or somewhere else 
mid-Titanium line.  It prevents a lot of very short charge-discharge 
cycles, whether from the battery normally just losing some of its 
charge over time, or if you unplug for only a minute or two.

In general, Lithium-Ion batteries have a certain number of charge 
cycles, and fractional charge cycles count for a fractional part 
against the life; if your battery has 500 cycles left in it, and you 
drain it to 80% left then recharge it, it now has about 499.8 charge 
cycles left.
Anyway, the idea is to prevent it from continually charging that last 
1% back up when it is lost, and only resort to charging when the level 
gets low enough that it could start affecting your runtime.


silvo conticello <silvoc at tiscali.it> writes:
>
> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:16:30 +0100
>
> On 24 Jun 2004, at 17:04, Justin R. Miller wrote:
>>
>> It continually repeats this cycle, charging to 100%, trickling down to
>> 95%, then charging back up again, as long as it is plugged in.
>
> Wouldn't this behavior shorten the battery life?
> Anyhow, my battery status does not move from 99%.