[ltp] Laptop battery storage

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Gilson Laurent wrote:
> > Why? Because those wonderful "smart" LiON batteries only have a limited
> > number of charge cycles, something in the range of 200 - 300 or so.
> 
> I guess you think about Dell. Dell has limited the cycles because their
> batteries keep exploding after XY-cycles. I have never seen that on a
> thinkpad.

I don't know about the cycles, but the crap they use for a on-board charge
control keeps their batteries fully loaded at 100% and thus the pack is
useless in half the time it should have taken to degrade.  This was verified
in a brand-new Dell Latitude D510.

I will check about the cycle counter, Brazilian law forces Dell to
undisclose that information here.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh