The best you can do is to take the battery off every time it's fully charged and you are in a place where you can keep the laptop plugged to the wall.
Batteries life is determined in Cycles. 1 Cycle equal 1 discharge + 1 charge.
Charging you battery when it's half empty won't damage the battery itself but will make you run thru cycles twice faster, thus, it will kill your battery twice faster.
Never, never, keep the laptop plugged in with the battery in fully charged for a long period of time..... This is the mistake most people make, it prematurely kills the battery.
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Quote: Original post by svr2112
The best you can do is to take the battery off every time it's fully charged and you are in a place where you can keep the laptop plugged to the wall.
Batteries life is determined in Cycles. 1 Cycle equal 1 discharge + 1 charge.
Charging you battery when it's half empty won't damage the battery itself but will make you run thru cycles twice faster, thus, it will kill your battery twice faster.
Never, never, keep the laptop plugged in with the battery in fully charged for a long period of time..... This is the mistake most people make, it prematurely kills the battery.
This used to be the case a long time ago. Todays laptops include circuitry to always use the mains power if the laptop is plugged in instead of using the battery. I have Asus and Toshiba laptops and they both do this. Even my netbook does this. So taking the battery out is pointless since while plugged in the laptop doesn't use the power from the battery, and the battery will lose a slight charge (due to the nature of lithium batteries) whether it's connected to the laptop or not. So just leave it in and forget about it.
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