death inevitable?

[rooter]

Is it simply a fact of a laptop life that the battery will slowly loose it's length of holding a charge? are there tips/tricks for helping to prevent this? In general, I charge my ibook until it's full and take the charger out, until it's charged again. That being the opposite of what I did for my ti Powerbook which eventually lost any ability to hold a charge. Is this incorrect? What would be best?
Thanks yall, you are always supremo helpful!

 

[Ric]

Hi there,

you're doing everything right...

Charge fully...then use the PowerBook 'without' the adapter until it is flat...then charge again...etc

Every battery has a 'finite' number of times that it can be recharged...and as you've found out it eventually won't hold any charge !

If you have a 'worn out battery' you could plug that one in when you want to run off the AC adapter...and then just use the good battery when you need to be 'mobile'...

regards

Ric