[ltp] [ltp]Questtion about battery

Laurent Gilson linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 28 May 2008 14:34:27 +0200


Hi,

> Sorry to be a skeptic, but is there any evidence that this
> actually increases battery life?

Read this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium_ion#Storage_temperature_and_charge

> I would have thought that if this was so
> then battery/laptop manufacturers would have included this
> as part of the standard operating system?

You want a 100% full battery to work with, not 70%. So this is just
for storing them, not for daily use.

cu