2378 DYU just arrived...any do's or don'ts!!

[mjlake]

I just received my T42p ordered 6/28.
Does anyone have suggestion as to things to do or not to do
after unpacking?

Thanks in advance for suggestions.

[nesen]

never ever fully discharge the battery

I've lost about 5Wh because of booting Linux without battery management and falling asleep, that's about 20 minutes of low-intensive computing

(and no, the battery doesn't gain it's charge back, at least not in 3-4 cycles)

have fun with your thinkpad

[T23_Owner]

Yeah nesen, that really got my goat man. I followed the battery maintenance help and discharged my A20p battery and lost 40 minutes of juice. I had a good 2.5 hrs left on the battery now I get 1:50 of time on the dang thing. Who wrote that stuff anyways? You know I was trying to refresh this old battery because I bought a new one from a supplier on ebay and when I got it I totally discharged it and it MELTED. Luckily it didn't damage my thinkpad. DO NOT discharge your battery, you will be sorry.

[esquire]

Interesting.... I have a question,

What is the safe limit to prevent this from happening? 10%? 5%? Or...