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On Saturday, 10 December 2016 20:16:17 UTC, Johnny B Good wrote:
On Fri, 09 Dec 2016 13:19:36 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
john west wrote:
There's a lot of information about that if you keep a Laptop
battery
charged between only 80% full and only 40% full, it will be
servicable
over the years for four times as long.

Other information I find says it is the charging and
discharging
that
wears the battery out.

The laptop i have (with a built in battery) is mainly used in
one
room,
so it is easy to keep it plugged in *all the time* to mains
electricity.

Would it be better to prolong the life of the battery to keep
it
plugged in all the time or to go for the 80% - 40% option.
Thanks.

It depends on the charger in the laptop. I have an Acer
laptop -
not
the
cheapest they did - which cooks the battery if left in the
machine.
So
I
remove it when not needed. A better designed one wouldn't
cause
problems.

Such as the (11 year old) Acer Aspire 3660 I've had on
permanent
'charge' for the whole of its life to date which seems to still
have
around 70% or so of its original battery capacity.

Is there much point in having that sort of setup. Surely it would
have
been cheaper and better to have a desktop computer. If it never
moves
or
is never removed from its power.

Depends, a laptop has its own UPS.

and downs in that it can be stolen more easily and
damaged more easily and is usually more expensive
for a lower spec'd computer. I'm not sure people,
buy laptops because they have build-in UPS.
I thought they were bought for protability.

Plenty get them now for the convenience around the house.

Really with a mains lead trailing behind all the time.

Nope, because they dont need a mains lead quite a bit of the time.

But they still keep them topped up in case they do,

All they need to do is charge it in the one place and use
it without being plugged into the mains everywhere else.

Thats what I do with mine, its on the charger
all the time its in the fixed place in the kitchen
and isnt when I use it everywhere else.

That is much better than with a desktop system
which isnt as portable and which has to be plugged
into the mains whenever you do want to use it.

and they rarely do

Rarely do what ? Most dont use their laptop in just
the one place even if it hardly ever leaves the house.

hence the original question.

The original question is about something quite different,
whether to leave it charging all the time when its in the
place where it is charged.

There isnt a lot in it at the low end price wise now.

I agree but the screens on the low end range are pretty crap

Clearly those who hardly ever use desktops
anymore and use laptops instead feel otherwise.

No they donlt

Yes they do.

they use tablets and snartphones.

Plenty dont use them as much as their laptop.

I dont use my table anything like as much as the laptop
and I dont do what I do on my laptop on my smartphone.

but I suppose if it's just used for ordering from
amazon and social media they are OK.

And clearly for everything else they do too.

So why do people buy tablets and desktops ?

Hardly anyone buys desktops anymore.

Tablets are much more portable than laptops
but arent as good when you have to enter more
than trivial amounts of data.

I guess no ones buying surface pros or ipad pros then.

Perhaps they;ll stop making them soon.

Even sillier than you usually manage.