Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full battery laptop only 1 hour

[Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>]

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Am Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 01:51:39PM -0700 schrieb Mark Knecht:
> On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 1:40 PM Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> wrote:
> >
> > On 2022-09-12, Guillermo García wrote:
> >
> > > Hello guys,
> > >
> > > I bought a laptop and i got like 4 hours of batter life, everything
> > > ok, (using more than 1 vm, etc), however now in idle my laptop has
> > > only 1 hour of life, which is really annoying because its a brand new
> > > laptop bought one year before.
> >
> > Did anything change? Is this the same system/install which used to last
> > 4 hours on idle? Or, when you say "brand new bought one year before",
> > you mean it wasn't used before?
> >
> > --
> > Nuno Silva
> >
> 
> Battery life can change over time. I've had batteries that after a couple of
> years just didn't last as long. I've purchased a few replacement batteries
> from Amazon and one of them didn't hold charge at all.

My Thinkpad is 6¼ years old and the batteries it shipped with are at 72 and
75 % of their original capacity. But I didn’t use them *that* much, and
always kept them betweet 40 and 80 % charge when I didn’t need them, which
is probably 98 % of the year.

> 1 year is pretty short but possibly he might buy a new battery as
> a test. They generally aren't overly expensive.

I don’t believe that they went down to 25 % of their original capacity
within a year. To achieve that, they must have endured unspeakable abuse.

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