[mdlug] Battery memory issue

[Peter Bart]

On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 11:21 -0600, Robert Jim Fulner wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> My wife has had her laptop about a year now. Even though I had
> suggested otherwise she more or less has kept the machine plugged in
> all the time.
> 
> Now that we are away on vacation the machine stays on for about 6
> minutes not plugged in. Aside from buying a new battery, is there
> anything we can do to improve functionality?
> 
> If it matters, she runs windoze vista home edition, and I boot DSL off
> of usb when she's not looking. (she doesn't like me "penginizing" her
> computer).
> 
> Jim

Dear Jim,
	From what I can see when I search "battery memory issues", you're wife
may have let the magic smoke escape the battery. Wikipedia says there
are many urban legends regarding reviving notebook batteries. These are
two of the sites that came up on the search
<http://www.batteryuniversity.com/parttwo-34.htm>,
<http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=91846> and they; as
well as almost all of the others; advise against leaving the battery in
while constantly connected. I feel your pain, I have one of those kind
of computers as well and I'm sure I'll be buying a new battery soon. I
usually "accidentally" unplug this notebook as a matter of course.
Matter of fact I think I'm going to do that right now.

Best Regards,

-- 
Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
http://petertheplumber.net