| reply to T_Wrecks
Re: I want to maximize my battery life big difference between NiCads, NiMh, and Lithium Ion batteries. With NiCad they had to be periodically discharged or would get a memory effect and their capacity reduced greatly over a relatively short period of time. With NiMh and Lithium Ion batteries there is no memory effect. Lithium present a much greater fire danger but hold their charge with much less loss of power when not used than a NiMh battery.
The only advantage to minimizing the use of the battery is if you live in a outage prone area as I do and want to have the use of your laptop until power is restored.
What is interesting is that just as notebook battery life is being doubled or even tripled the airports are starting to put in wall plugs everywhere. I have stopped carrying around a 15 foot extension cord on my travels (lighter than a second battery). |
