From: Michael <mig...@gm...> - 2008-02-03 17:22:17
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Hi, > Well this notebook is 17months old and the battery had 162 charges and > is down to 47% ... And this is the second battery already. Maybe I am > using this machine to heavily. I'm way over 162 :) More around 400. I always tried to "exercise" the battery, so when I worked I unplugged it to get it empty and then in the last minute I plugged it in again. Seems to be not good for a battery. I read somewhere that you should remove it and just work with the plug in so I thought it might be good not to have it constantly full. I know better now for the next battery. But it still waste lots of watts. I will give 2.6.24 another try when the new madwifi drivers are out. I heard that radeonhd will start to work on some 3D stuff soon (but just basics). Perhaps I'll find some more tweaks to get less wake-ups. Thanks everyone Michael |