One Laptop Bad Habit Which I Never Realized
July 29th, 2009 | 
Author: As an avid laptop user, I (like many others) make this same mistake over and over again.
A mistake which over the years have become a very bad habit.
What is it you might wonder?
As seen with many others including myself, we tend to charge our laptop while working on it. In other words, we leave the power plug of the laptop on with the battery of the laptop intact (even though the battery is full !).
This will actually cause the battery to loose its lifespan.
So what’s the best practice or good habit as opposed to the above?
- The best practice in lengthen the lifespan of your battery is to charge it only when you are not using your laptop.
- When at a stationary location (where the power source is available), remove the battery. This allow discharging process to take place and help keeping the health of the laptop batteries itself.
- Use the laptop with the battery only when power source is unavailable.
This post is rather short but meaningful as laptop batteries can cost a hefty these days.
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Hi Jeanetta,
Thanks for the compliment.
Nice site and an interesting read - are you having fun with it? I like what you are doing here.
Very interesting and amusing subject. I read with great pleasure.
I really like your blog and i respect your work. I’ll be a frequent visitor.
I don’t get very well the concept here, so I believe people may disagree with it.
In truth, immediately i didn’t understand the essence. But after re-reading all at once became clear.
Hi Melissa,
I kinda agree by thought that some people might disagree with me on this one.
True enough, some of the latest high end laptops have an in-built power cutoff feature; which means once it is fully charged the batteries will cut-off on the charging process as to not power-charged the batteries or vice versa.
But it is a good practice to actually remove the battery in order to extend the lifetime of the battery itself.
Interesting and informative. But will you write about this one more?
charming post. simply one decimal where I quarrel with it. I am emailing you in detail.
it is a interesting post. i like it!
thanks for sharing.. hah