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When laptop battery is fully charged, what is the best for battery life : use the battery or to use AC adapter (in general) and why ?
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I hope this question doesn't get closed at once :)
I have an old laptop, a Compaq NC4200, which is going its final laps around the track these days. Battery is dead, and everything kinda runs slow. It also has only 1GB of memory, and even though I don't know if it can take more, I probably wouldn't…
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Regardless of battery charge, when unplugged Ubuntu displays critical battery message and hibernates. I can only seem to change it to either shutdown or hibernate.
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I have a bluetooth mouse connected to my laptop.
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My laptop is Thinkpad E420 with Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit installed, the kernel version is 3.2.0-33-generic.
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To have a long life with the battery it has to be separated from the Laptop after each use
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Calibrating the HP Laptop Battery
This document pertains to HP Notebook PCs with Windows 7 and Vista.
Calibrating the laptop battery
Calibrating the battery means recharging the battery to its maximum capacity and resetting the battery gauge to display the level of charge accurately.
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