How to Prolong Lithium-based Batteries
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:24 pm
If you brought a new or refilled battery for your IBM or Lenovo ThinkPads, there is an article (the link is at the bottom of the post) telling how to prolong li-on batteries so you don't have to keep wasting money on regularly replacements of brand new batteries especially the ones sits on some warehouse's shelves for years. How lam is that?
I have a ThinkPad 600E 2645-4AU. I have a refilled battery I had purchased from http://www.batteryrefill.com/laptops/ib ... 00_d.phtml 2 years ago and it's still hold charge.
One thing I have notice that if I go to those websites to play Flash videos, it uses a lot of CPU usage especially when I use my laptop running on batteries. That is why I don't go on flash based websites and watch the videos like YouTube. I prefer converting flash videos into mpg or wmv files and watch it offline. Same thing with playing DVDs, these laptops have a large hard drive (40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 200, and 500 gigabytes of space). Regular DVD movies are 4.7GB and Dual layer DVD movies are 8.4GB and why I want to burn up my DVD player or writer for one and a half (1 1/2) to two (2) hours to watch a movie and killing my battery's runtime in the process?
That is why I don't have many programs running into background, and when I'm not on the internet, I disabled the wireless adapter.
Bluetooth devices are the worst, they leached every drop out of the battery's runtime if not careful. Why is that people using the bluetooth ear piece put their cell phones on the charger frequently every day? That must not be good for the battery, but I guess people like the convenience of not holding the phone to their ear. I prefer the wired ear piece because it doesn't drain your cell phone battery.
Anyway, I'm off the topic here, another thing I have notice is when I use my ThinkPad laptop on wireless on the Internet and watch flash videos, it shortens the battery's runtime (kind of like put a huge load on the CPU and the battery).
Majority of people are using laptops today, (right now as I typing) cares about conveniences of mobility and complaining about why the battery doesn't last long and getting ripped off when buying batteries off ebay because the sellers don't have no clue how long the new sealed batteries is been on the distributor's shelves because it does not have a date or date code printed on it.
Did you know why that alkaline batteries have dates printed on the package? Next time, when you go to the store to buy alkaline batteries for your flashlight, remote control, and other electronic devices, read the label on the package and you see the date: BEST USE BY 20**.
I seen people use their laptops like it is a desktop computer since they had the laptop new or refurbished; leaving it plugged in all the time, disabled the power management features, using the LCD screen on maximum brightness, all because the consumer (not all) are lazy.
http://www.buchmann.ca/Chap10-page6.asp
I have a ThinkPad 600E 2645-4AU. I have a refilled battery I had purchased from http://www.batteryrefill.com/laptops/ib ... 00_d.phtml 2 years ago and it's still hold charge.
One thing I have notice that if I go to those websites to play Flash videos, it uses a lot of CPU usage especially when I use my laptop running on batteries. That is why I don't go on flash based websites and watch the videos like YouTube. I prefer converting flash videos into mpg or wmv files and watch it offline. Same thing with playing DVDs, these laptops have a large hard drive (40, 60, 80, 100, 120, 200, and 500 gigabytes of space). Regular DVD movies are 4.7GB and Dual layer DVD movies are 8.4GB and why I want to burn up my DVD player or writer for one and a half (1 1/2) to two (2) hours to watch a movie and killing my battery's runtime in the process?
That is why I don't have many programs running into background, and when I'm not on the internet, I disabled the wireless adapter.
Bluetooth devices are the worst, they leached every drop out of the battery's runtime if not careful. Why is that people using the bluetooth ear piece put their cell phones on the charger frequently every day? That must not be good for the battery, but I guess people like the convenience of not holding the phone to their ear. I prefer the wired ear piece because it doesn't drain your cell phone battery.
Anyway, I'm off the topic here, another thing I have notice is when I use my ThinkPad laptop on wireless on the Internet and watch flash videos, it shortens the battery's runtime (kind of like put a huge load on the CPU and the battery).
Majority of people are using laptops today, (right now as I typing) cares about conveniences of mobility and complaining about why the battery doesn't last long and getting ripped off when buying batteries off ebay because the sellers don't have no clue how long the new sealed batteries is been on the distributor's shelves because it does not have a date or date code printed on it.
Did you know why that alkaline batteries have dates printed on the package? Next time, when you go to the store to buy alkaline batteries for your flashlight, remote control, and other electronic devices, read the label on the package and you see the date: BEST USE BY 20**.
I seen people use their laptops like it is a desktop computer since they had the laptop new or refurbished; leaving it plugged in all the time, disabled the power management features, using the LCD screen on maximum brightness, all because the consumer (not all) are lazy.
http://www.buchmann.ca/Chap10-page6.asp