On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 12:07:46PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Sun, Mar 26, 2017 at 04:46:37AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > > On 03/25/2017 05:29 PM, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > > >Hi, Joe. > > > > > >[snip] > > > > > >Checking the purchase invoices, I bought the notebook on September 19, > > >2013, and then changed the battery on November 2, 2015. So less than two > > >years ago I have this battery. > > > > > >The notebook I use it practically every day and I leave it sleeping from > > >one day to the next so I do not have to open every application every > > >time. I'm not sure if that impacts so much on the battery life. > > > > If it was a long term degradation, possibly. With some battery > > technology/technologies(?) there is a "memory" effect. If there is a > > repeated "shallow discharge"/recharge cycle ( sleep overnight > > followed by running during day with charger plugged in) the > > effective battery capacity will decrease. IIRC that applies to only > > one technology but can't remember which. > > That would be the nickel family (NiMH and its predecessors). Laptops > changed long ago (I'd venture somewhere in the 90-ies) to Li-whatever.
http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/archive/memory_myth_or_fact -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
