* Posts by Kevin Bailey

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Zen and the Art of Laptop Battery Maintenance

Kevin Bailey

Keep your battery cool...?

This goes against my understanding of batteries losing there charge when exposed to cold temperatures. Think of your car battery on a cold winters morning. It will have just enough charge to fire the engine, even though it was healthy and fully charged the evening before.

On another note, I like to keep batties healthy and since onwning my first mobile phone, I do not charge it until it dies. Only then do I get the charger out. All of my phones held their full charge as well as it did when new. Even now, my 18 month old Blackberry battery will keep the phone powered for 5 days with average useage - the same as the day it was purchased, and yet many mobile users moan about having to charge their battery every other day, mainly due to charging them at irregular intervals when they still have plenty of current remaining.