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Old Nov 17, 2008, 7:19 pm
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DeafFlyer
 
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Originally Posted by brp
But, it seems to say that if you're generally running from line power you should store rather than using it in the laptop.

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That I don't know about. I just leave it in. I have had 4 laptops. One laptop is 6 years old and I have been using it without the battery for the past 2 years. The bttery worked for 4 years, but wouldn't last as long as it originally did. On the second laptop, the screen went bad after 4 years, but the battery still worked fine. The third one is 2 years old, and the battery gets used a lot, but still lasts for 2 hours. The4th one is this one,and it is is 1.5 years old and still works for several hours on battery power. On all but one of these laptops, I just leave the battery in, when pluggd in, and it seems to have no effect that I can see. That's my experience.
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