Re: Notebook Battery

2007-07-18 Thread koffiejunkie
Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Batteries in a Portable World. A handbook on rechargeable batteries for non-engineers http://www.buchmann.ca/ Great link, thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Notebook Battery

2007-07-18 Thread koffiejunkie
Stefan Monnier wrote: Given the specs of your battery (10.8V 4.8Ah, i.e. 51Wh), an autonomy of one hour means your laptop consumes around 50W, which is a hell of a lot for a laptop, unless you keep it constantly in stress test (with full CPU and disk, and graphics card load). So I'd guess that yo

Re: Notebook Battery

2007-07-18 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
M-L wrote: > On Tuesday 17 July 2007 19:19, koffiejunkie shared this with us all: >> --} Is there anything I can do to improve this, or this battery just on the >> --} way out? I'm just bothered by the suddeness of this drop in battery >> --} life - it's been at about an hour for a good six months

Re: Notebook Battery

2007-07-17 Thread M-L
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 19:19, koffiejunkie shared this with us all: >--} Is there anything I can do to improve this, or this battery just on the >--} way out?  I'm just bothered by the suddeness of this drop in battery >--} life - it's been at about an hour for a good six months now, and stayed >-

Re: Notebook Battery

2007-07-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I know the answer to this will probably hurt, but I thought I'd give it > a shot in any case. My notebook's battery life took a sudden drop from > around an hour to about 15 minutes. I is a 4800mAh battery. Given the specs of your battery (10.8V 4.8Ah, i.e. 51Wh), an autonomy of one hour mean

Notebook Battery

2007-07-17 Thread koffiejunkie
Hi guys, I know the answer to this will probably hurt, but I thought I'd give it a shot in any case. My notebook's battery life took a sudden drop from around an hour to about 15 minutes. I is a 4800mAh battery. Fully charged, I noticed this: theluggage:/proc/acpi/battery/C17C# cat info