If the main line is not on a battery backup, the on board battery is the battery backup, right? So no protection for the unit plus needing a surge proctor.
Maybe the plugin in is on something from a bigger up stream backup. Or they have really good steady power?
Had a old LT that the battery was underneath right in front & easy & simple to pull. One I have now it is under the back edge, needs the screen down & two hands while the LT is on edge or upside down. Does not induce me to pull the battery as often. This battery has never gone over 1½ hours of use since it was new. ??? Asus K52P - win 7 hm premium.
My work laptop will not accept additional charge if the battery is at 97% or greater when it’s plugged in. Oh, it’ll charge all the way to 100% but only if the battery was at 96% of less to begin with.
Sure I would know. I take the laptop out occasionally for meetings and the like the battery lasted about 3 hours new and lasts about 3 hours now. As Shagnasty pointed out laptops in docking stations are an extremely common business setup. Pretty much everybody where I work has such a setup.
I have a Lenovo T400 Thinkpad that I once left running for almost 2 years straight. Still works fine. There again it runs Linux, not Windows, so I never needed to reboot.
Yeah, it’s our “kitchen” computer. My wife keeps pestering me to get rid of it, since an iPad is 800 zillion times faster, but I’m curious how along it will stay up…
Slowness aside, it’s still usable for surfing the web (although it can’t play video worth a damn).
I recently found this in a storage box that had been gather dust for years. Out of curiosity I fired it up and it worked (!!?!) Running MS-DOS 6.22 and it had Turbo C installed. Amazingly, they still make batteries for this device.
