[X4U] Battery

[Michel Treisman]

Seems like good advice to me - thank you.  I think my battery is dead  
- at best it used to do nearly 2 hours and has gradually got worse.  
When I installed Airport it showed the strain, and now lasts just a  
couple of minutes.



>
>
> But I doubt this will help in your case. Most likely your battery  
> is simply
> dead. Get a new one.
>
> Of all the battery advice I have heard over the years I found the  
> following
> two most effective:
> - Avoid warmer than room temperature conditions for your battery
> - Avoid running the laptop from the power adaptor while the battery  
> is fully
> charged. Instead use the battery like it was designed to be used:  
> Charge,
> run off the battery, charge, run off the battery, ... . Yes, these  
> cycles
> will put some stress on the battery, as you can read elsewhere. But  
> LiIon
> are much more susceptible to high charges when their selfdestructive
> chemical tendencies (no kidding) will hurt the battery the most.  
> This self
> destruction drops off dramatically for charges below 80% (and in  
> standard
> temperature). So if you just use the battery, you will mostly keep  
> your
> battery exactly in those conditions.
>
> One hour is not good from the start. Maybe you are not using energy  
> settings
> in an efficient way?
> http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50666
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Bjorn
>
>