[P1] Prolonging Battery Life

[patdart]

You guys are scaring me to death about my battery life.  I keep mine 
plugged in (with battery inside) 90+ of the time and almost never 
discharge it more than to 75%.  Does this mean my battery life is 
losing every day?  I bought laptops primarily for the 'real estate' 
issue and almost never use them away from my desk.

Also, another problem, I installed a new Airport Extreme a couple of 
weeks ago to replace a dead old Airport and it doesn't want to work 
when I'm not using direct power.  Any thoughts on why that is?

Pat
On Tuesday, June 22, 2004, at 02:32 AM, RP McKay wrote:

> On 22/6/04 5:52 am, "Dave Wyman" <davewyman at imountainman.com> wrote (in
> part):
>
>> I haven't had this problem. If the battery is continuously plugged in,
>> is there a very short cycle of charging and discharging? My battery
>> level indicator never varies from showing a 99% charge when I keep it
>> plugged in. (Of course, with my new wireless capability, I'm composing
>> this e-mail sitting on my couch, on battery power.)
>
> It will only show effects (and start the short charge / discharge 
> cycle) if
> used exclusively in this way for several weeks or months on end. If 
> you are
> using the portable on battery power (normal usage) once in a while as 
> well
> it shouldn't be nearly as much of an issue...
>