[ale] laptop battery life [maybe OT]

[Christopher Fowler]

On Mon, 2006-07-03 at 02:00 +0200, joh6nn wrote:
> On Sunday, Jul. 02 2006 10:55 pm, Christopher Fowler wrote:
> > How old is the battery?  What is your usage of the battery?  Batteries
> > will go bad.  I have a ZE1250 that I bought in 2003 and I'm on my 3rd
> > one.  What I did was buy the PSP from BB and then went in every time I
> > saw this problem and got a new battery.  That fixed my problems :)
> >
> 
> i'm not sure how old the battery is; i got the laptop second hand.  it's 
> definitely a few years old.  this problem has been present since i got the 
> laptop, so except for a very few times, i haven't used the battery hardly at 
> all.  for the moment, it's sitting on a corner of my desk, and i just keep 
> the laptop plugged in and use it like a desktop.  what the usage on the 
> battery was like before i got it, i don't know.
> 
> you've had this particular problem before?  where the battery holds its charge 
> and works fine, but the device reports it as nearly empty?  i've had plenty 
> of dealings with batteries that eventually stopped charging, but i've never 
> had this problem before.

Yes.  I've also had the problem where the device says it is 30% and then
the battery goes dead.