Do you remove the battery from laptop when using mains adapter?

cajef

grizzly1911 wrote: »

If you leave it plugged in why have a laptop?

Mainly because I find it very difficult fitting a desktop, monitor, speakers, keyboard and mouse into a case and carrying them around when I am visiting or staying at friends or relations.

shaun_from_Africa

John_Gray wrote: »

It really goes to show that battery technology is probably the most backward of all electronics!

When you consider that you can have a battery which may be less than half the size of an average paperback book and this can power a laptop computer for 3 or 4 hours, I would hardly call modern battery technology "backward".

As a battery is something that stores and releases energy by way of a chemical conversion, there are always going to be issues with heat and its ultimate usable life.

Johnmcl7

I keep the battery in my laptops for a variety of reasons and don't find it reduces the life that much of them particularly as li-ion has a limited shelf life anyway. I tend to use extended batteries in my laptops which lift the back of the machine up and give more air for the cooling vents and I find laptops tend to be unbalanced without the battery particularly when opening and closing the lid. As mentioned above the battery means the laptop keeps running if someone knocks the mains cable out which isn't normally fatal to the laptop but can mean it needs a rebuild.

John