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From: session@uncw.UUCP (Zack C. Sessions)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: asking recommendations on laptop/notebook purchase
Keywords: laptop, notebook, purchase, advice
Message-ID: <1082@uncw.UUCP>
Date: 16 Mar 91 04:57:06 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.180205.6461@cs.ruu.nl> <1991Mar13.183006.7133@cs.ruu.nl> <1079@uncw.UUCP> <1991Mar15.193521.11270@uncecs.edu>
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mvolo@uncecs.edu (Michael R. Volow) writes:

|In article <1079@uncw.UUCP>, session@uncw.UUCP (Zack C. Sessions) writes:
|| hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder) writes:
|| 
|| >In <1991Mar13.180205.6461@cs.ruu.nl> hnridder@cs.ruu.nl (Ernst de Ridder) writes:
|| >- It must be able to run for at least 4 hrs. before needing a recharge.
|| 
|| 1100FD battery advertised to go for up to 5 hours, but I have found
|| that a lot of disk IO will drain it pretty fast.
|| 
|What in fact is the range of battery hours you can get on the 1100FD, 
|compared to the advertised life of 5 hours. What is the average range,
|aand what are the extremes. Thanks.

Mine will only run about two hours until the low battery light starts
blinking, but I feel that I have probably "mistreated" the battery
in mine by not letting it drain down completely when I first got
it before I would plug it back in. I have heard that if you do not let
NiCads drain down before recharcging them, they "learn" this value
as it's new "low" point".

Zack Sessions