leaving battery in a laptop ........

samtom_gw

13 years ago

Hi folks,

We purchased a new Toshiba for my darling wife. Now she's better equipped than I am. ;-)

It will be used primarily at home via the AC adapter unit.

What the current thinking on removing the battery or leaving it in?

Many thanks,

Tom

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emma
13 years ago
I think a lot of people leave the battery out and keep it plugged in all the time. I have a Toshiba and I was going to leave mine out, but the battery is the cover and I didn't want to leave the contacts exposed.
mikie_gw
13 years ago
Read the manual and follow Toshiba's recommendation for your laptop.

Mostly they want you to leave it installed. Last toshiba here said leave it in.. Toshiba before that said take it out and store it at half charge or something. Exercise it every few months.
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dee_can1
13 years ago
I leave mine in (but 'exercise' it now and then like mikie advised). I think my original Toshiba battery lasted about a year and a half. Then I bought a battery from a local computer guy, and it's the most awesome battery, lasting and lasting - better than Toshiba's imo.

The reason I bought the battery from someone else, too, is that the store where I bought my laptop from would honour their warranty for the battery and give me a free replacement, but they wanted to send the laptop away to analyze the battery/my laptop, etc. It's like they didn't believe me that the battery was dead - ha. So I bought a different battery altogether. Probably more than you wanted to know. lol
mikie_gw
13 years ago
Batteries in my Toshiba's lasted longer than the laptops... 4yrs they still had half life/run time. Seldom used on battery excpt for moments and when I pulled the plug on purpose.

I just pulled the plug to 10% charge on my laptop now.. and let it charge up fully... lenovo.. it has a Energy Management program.. that allows you to select the battery life mode based on use... and always plugged in mode it drains the battery to 50%.. and then when it power level hits 45% it charges it to full,, and drains it to 50% again. And that takes a long time to lose charge from 50 to 45% .. and I'm writing too much.
samtom_gw
Original Author
13 years ago
We need to download their manual. Just yesterday, she started setting the new one up.

She should get to the manual today.

She's replacing a 7 year old Toshiba with 256MG of RAM and now has 6GIG. That plus improved processor speed - what a difference, out of the dark ages.

Thanks for all the input.

Best wishes,

Tom

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