[P1] Accidental battery life development, continued

[Joe Jones]

I'm afraid I beg to differ here.

Lithium batteries have a finite number of recharge cycles, and they do 
need to be conditioned to keep them at peak capacity. There's no 
counter that runs down to zero and then kills the battery, but you're 
only going to get 500 or so charges out of it. Every month you're 
supposed to run the battery down until the computer goes to sleep on 
its own, then charge it up to full.

I make a habit of never charging my battery unless the sleep warning 
comes on (at about 7% charge). As a result, over a year later my 
battery still gives me 5 hours per full charge if I'm careful (ie, no 
DVD watching with the screen on full brightness).

Joe

On Thursday, Jul 17, 2003, at 08:37 Europe/London, Zoki wrote:

>
>
> *** One thing **NOT** to do with the new batteries like the icebook's, 
> and
> this should be a note with flashing lights around it on every desk, is
> <flash> **NOT** </flash> to drain it to zero. These batteries do not 
> have a
> memory and they can be charged when they're half empty. Same thing 
> with the
> iPod's batt.