While the portability of laptops is the main reason they’ve grown increasingly popular, that portability comes a price, namely rechargeable batteries. Not only do these batteries limit how long you can use the computer away from a power outlet, they gradually lose their ability to hold a charge.
Battery Health Monitor: Another freeware option, not quite [...]
Wow! It’s Wednesday’s IT Blogwatch: in which we’re really, really excited about a notebook battery that lasts 30 years. Not to mention an awful, awful performance from Commander Riker hawking enterprise IT automation software…
A breathless Next Energy News reports:
Your next laptop could have a continuous power battery that lasts for 30 years without a [...]
Lithium Ion notebook batteries wear down because of two factors:
active usage in your notebook battery
natural aging of the notebook battery
Both will wear down your notebook battery over time; the trick is to minimize their impact while still getting the performance out of your laptop battery that you need.
The most important thing to understand about laptop [...]
There are three refurbished notebook battery types, each named for its component materials:
Nickel Cadmium batteries (NiCad battery) are hardly ever seen anymore. They have dismally low capacities (2000-3000 mAH) and contain heavy metals that harm the environment. Worst of all is the dreaded “memory effect”. When you recharge a Nickel Cadmium battery before it is [...]
Laptop users love to complain about how their notebook batteries don’t last long enough. But what if you could get more life out of your laptop battery?
Peter Robbins knows when he turns on his two year old laptop, he doesn’t have long to work.
“My laptop battery dies within a half hour,”
Robbins said.
And when he forgets [...]
FreshBattery announced a new Legacy line of laptop batteries. The units are designed to provide batteries for notebook models that have been discontinued for three to 5 years, including older Apple PowerBooks and Apple iBooks.
According to Macworld News, the company claims that the laptop batteries are designed to meet or exceed the original manufacturer’s specifications. [...]
Tekkeon announces myPower ALL Plus MP3450, an external rechargeable laptop battery that doubles the life of laptop batteries and can simultaneously charge other small portable devices through an on-board USB port. myPower ALL Plus is modular, so a second extended battery can be added to provide even more mobile power.
myPower ALL Plus powers and charges [...]
Gateway today recalled 14,000 batteries used in its notebook PCs after four customers reported that their computers had overheated, a similar condition to the massive laptop battery recall that swept the industry in 2006.
Dell, Apple, Lenovo Group, and other vendors recalled more than 8 million batteries made by Sony when customers began complaining that the [...]
