On 4/18/03 3:23 PM, "Alexandre Kapellos" <a.kapellos at bluewin.ch> wrote: > I just got a T68i to replace my beloved but dying T39m. Does anybody > have any advice about charging the battery for the first/second/... > time. The guy at the store said that the first time I should leave it > plugged in for 16 hours in order for it to reach its optimized level of > charge. He mentionned also something about the second and third time > you recharge it, but I forgot what! Just let it die completely, recharge, die, recharge, die, recharge... Just make sure it charges until it's full, and it dies until it turns itself off -- Samuel W. Hotchkiss President, Contractor Services, LLC. hotch at zlit.net Laptop History: PB 145, PB 520c, PB 3400c, 400mhz Pismo, 400mhz TiBook, 667mhz TiBook (rev b), 1ghz TiBook