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From: rda@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Robert Dale)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Battery Life/T1600 (and T1000SE too!)
Message-ID: <3413@scott.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 20 Jan 91 12:47:47 GMT
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afinlayson@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:

>I use a T1000SE, not a T1600 but I have also noticed that when my 
>machine sat idle for a week and a half over the holidays that the
>battery had discharged to the point that the "hard" RAM had
>vaporized as well.

This happens to me too.  I have to make sure I recharge my T1000SE
about once a week.  Also, I find my battery life is now down to about
1.5 hours maximum, and sometimes it just disappears for no apparent
reason -- sometimes I'll charge it up before a trip, and when I take
it out to use it en route, the battery indicator says I'm full, but 20
minutes later I get the flashing red light.  This is on a machine
which is about 9 months old.  Should I worry?  I always make sure the
battery is dead before I recharge, although I suspect I didn't do this
once or twice very early on, and I fear I may have screwed up the
battery then.

R
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