On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 19:02 -0500, brad longo wrote: > As I'm sure most of you know, leaving your laptop plugged in and > charging with a full battery charge is harmful for the battery. No, it isn't. Where did you get that idea? It's very harmful if you're using a charger which doesn't figure out when the battery's full and switch to trickle charge mode but just keeps dumping full charge power in - you'll kill the battery in short order and, if you're lucky, set stuff on fire too. However, I know of not a single laptop ever shipped with such a dumb charger. All laptops have smart chargers, which sense when the charge is complete. Leaving the laptop plugged in while fully charged is a perfectly normal use case that all manufacturers expect and design for. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
