[ltp] One battery or two?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 5 Oct 2008 21:18:14 -0300


On Sun, 05 Oct 2008, Tino Keitel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 20:39:27 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > And, above all, USE your battery when you want to.  There are ways to use it
> > without damaging it for no reason, but a battery exists to be used.
> 
> I got the impression that the remaining lifetime of the battery is
> shortened with every charge cycle. So I do use my battery only when it
> is really required. And when I use it, I try to use it in a way that
> implies at least charge cycles as possible.

I used to do that.  It is not worth the hassle to "use the battery only when
it is required", if you have any bias towards not using it as confortably as
you could, in order to "not require the battery".

-- 
  "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