Laptop Suicide Bombers Strike

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justxploring — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 20:59:54 GMT

Don't want to get hung up on this issue, but it's interesting that you wrote that a battery can stay in the laptop. My Toshiba manual says that you should never use both the power and the battery at the same time once it has been charged or it will create too much heat and shorten the life of the battery. Since it's an Li-Ion battery, I have no idea why they suggest putting it away in a cool place and charging it once a month back to 100% and down to 0%, etc. I think the manual is wrong.... [ More ]

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Todd — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:27:56 GMT

Excellent comments, they make sense and you raise some good points. My advice is if you use your PC every day, leave it on 24/7. Turn it off only when you're going to be away for a week. All modern montors have power-saving modes, and most PCs do too. They turn off components (like the monitor and hard drive(s)) when they haven't been used for a long time (you get to specify how long). In the case of a laptop, they can be treated a little differently, because they have much... [ More ]

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justxploring — Sun, 24 Sep 2006 19:08:35 GMT

Actually, this is no laughing matter. Federal Express has reported many fires in flight from laptop batteries. I thought they only got hot when in use, but these were in the cargo area. I always remove my battery when I'm home. It's also not good for your hard drive to use both the AC power and the battery, because of the heat generated. This has been a debate for a while, sort of like the "do I shut down my computer at night?" question. Last summer when I bought this I spent hours on tec... [ More ]

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