http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/charge-your-battery-often-possible-revolutionary-comparative-numeric-results Comments for "Charge your battery as often as possible - revolutionary, comparative, numeric results!" en-US http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/charge-your-battery-often-possible-revolutionary-comparative-numeric-results#comment-6515 <p>Groucho, thanks for the comment; looking forward for your new results!</p> pubDate Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:05:16 -0600 dc:creator Werner Ruotsalainen guid false comment 6515 at http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/charge-your-battery-often-possible-revolutionary-comparative-numeric-results#comment-6513 <p>Sure I do - the Dell PDF is on an entirely different matter. It speaks of short-term (between two recharges) battery life and the ways of extending it, while I elaborate on long-term (months / years) battery capacity degradation and the ways of avoiding it.</p> <p>These two approaches have nothing in common - the two articles have a completely different subject.</p> pubDate Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:13:36 -0600 dc:creator Werner Ruotsalainen guid false comment 6513 at http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/9/charge-your-battery-often-possible-revolutionary-comparative-numeric-results#comment-6511 <p>Daniel, thanks for the link!</p> <p>The PDF you’ve linked indeed discusses how battery life can be improved (which can indeed be done on a notebook computer by decreasing the backlight level, disabling unusaed hardware, decreasing the CPU clock frequency etc), but only during one session (to provide the best battery life with one charge), not through the entire life span of the battery (that is, to help the battery keep its capacity after months of (heavy) use and recharges).</p> <p>The article I’ve linked focusses on the latter issue: instead of telling the user to decrease the backlight level, disable Wi-Fi etc., it compares the three most important, widely used - and, last but not least, with real-world statistics and figures, in the past, not really backed up - approaches of recharging batteries. Should the Dell document have gone the same way, they would have stated for example “only plug-in your notebook when its battery is just about getting flat or, alternatively, remove the battery if you don’t want to do this unless you can live with the disadvantages of running on battery” vs. “make sure you always keep it on a charger”. Or, alternatively, they would have explained “we constantly monitor the charge level of the battery and when it decreases under a certain threshold (which is, BTW, around 95% on Thinkpad notebooks), we start recharing the battery”.</p> pubDate Sat, 10 Nov 2007 14:20:26 -0600 dc:creator Werner Ruotsalainen guid false comment 6511 at http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms