[CentOS] Battery condition tools CentOS/Dell
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Aug 5 16:41:37 UTC 2009
Kwan Lowe wrote:
> Also, not sure if this is possible, but I would like to control how
> the laptop charges the battery. I tend to have the laptop plugged in
> most of the time and this constant charging state is apparently very
> bad for battery lifetime. So a charge/drain cycle is supposedly
> better.
>
assuming a reasonably modern (last 5 years?) laptop with a lithium-ion
battery, your battery's useful life is the shorter of
~400 full discharge/recharge cycles (+/- 200)
3-5 years from date of manufacture
after that, the battery charge will last about half as long as when it
was new, and it will continue to deteriorate.
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