counting charge cycles

[Pantagruel]

In a post I read a reference to the number of charge cycles a computer had undertaken. How can that be determined ?

[Brad]

ThinkPad power manager.

Brad

[Hans Gruber]

My best battery is 6 charging cycles. My worst, 361 charging cycles.

[mpcook]

In a post I read a reference to the number of charge cycles a computer had undertaken. How can that be determined ?

Just to be clear, ThinkVantage Power Manager tells you the number of charge cycles of the installed battery, not the computer itself. The battery stores the number of cycles on-board, the laptop software can read that value, along with some other info indicating battery health, manufacture date, etc. Handy to have.

[Quardah]

I guess what really matters is to know is the hard drive total runtime and the battery current maximum charge in percent.

On Linux :

"acpi -i" give you the battery maximum charge in percent

"smartctl --all /dev/sda | grep Power_On_Hours" gives you the total hard drive runtime.

Under windows you should be able to find this info easy as well.


You don't really have to care about the rest in your laptop. And i don't think there's any way to get a processor total runtime.