Computer boffs

[Dancliovalver]

my acer laptop is s**t. the battery only lasts 20 mins from a full charge

same with my toshiba one but i really like it, has windows vista and i really really like it

[cliokiz]

Batteries **** up on all laptops no matter what make they are, obviously some sooner than others but they all die sooner or later and eventually hold no charge at all, due to the memory effect i do believe.

Every time you use your laptop on battery power it will use as much power as it can from the battery, until the battery is eventually too weak to power the laptop and it will keep switching off when you try to boot it up.

Obviously there's still a small amount of charge left in the battery and you can't fully deplete it by this point as the laptop won't stay powered on.

If you plug in your charger to recharge the battery without getting rid of that small amount of charge it still has in it, you will loose that little amount of capacity each time, hence the term 'memory' effect. So of course as you never fully drain the battery you keep shortening it's life spam each time to charge it up.

The only way you can prevent this happening is if you get a small resistor and bridge the +ve and -ve contacts and leave it for say 24hrs, and this will drain the rest of the battery. Then, when you charge it, it will be charged to full capacity and everyone lives happily ever after.

I think that's how it all works anyway....!

[Gav]

go to dell.com

cant beat them