Laptop Battery-OT???

Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy her a
new whiz bang laptop. :\

So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old.
Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college.

It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we
normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe, and
held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes.

After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped precipitiously
about 15% every 5 minutes.

Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron P3
600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card.

Thanks
Mark

On Oct 26, 9:08 am, "pheasant" <kiava...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy her a
> new whiz bang laptop. :\
>
> So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old.
> Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college.
>
> It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we
> normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe, and
> held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes.
>
> After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped precipitiously
> about 15% every 5 minutes.
>
> Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron P3
> 600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card.
>
> Thanks
> Mark

My notebooks battery held about 2HR worth of power, new. Now 2years
later i get the low batt warrning allot sooner, may be 1hr. Try to
completely drain and then fully charge battery, may be do it couple
times in a row, this might make meter slightly more accurate but not
whole bunch. New batt should solve ur problems.

when the battery died in my old hp, i just removed it, and used the ac
adapter instead. It's been like that for over 3 years now and works fine.

Mike


"fermineutron" <free4trample@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> On Oct 26, 9:08 am, "pheasant" <kiava...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy
>> her a
>> new whiz bang laptop. :\
>>
>> So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old.
>> Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college.
>>
>> It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we
>> normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe,
>> and
>> held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes.
>>
>> After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped
>> precipitiously
>> about 15% every 5 minutes.
>>
>> Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron
>> P3
>> 600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mark
>
> My notebooks battery held about 2HR worth of power, new. Now 2years
> later i get the low batt warrning allot sooner, may be 1hr. Try to
> completely drain and then fully charge battery, may be do it couple
> times in a row, this might make meter slightly more accurate but not
> whole bunch. New batt should solve ur problems.
>

On Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:08:48 -0500, "pheasant" <kiavan02@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Daughter finally whined long and loud enough to get us to cave and buy her a
>new whiz bang laptop. :\
>
>So we' ve got the old Dell with a battery that's at least 3 years old.
>Think I bought her a new battery before she headed to college.
>
>It's used mainly as a desktop replacement, so ac is available, and we
>normally just leave it plugged in. Had it in the kitchen for a recipe, and
>held it's juice nicely for about 20 minutes.
>
>After 20 minutes (2 open windows) it read 75% then dropped precipitiously
>about 15% every 5 minutes.
>
>Dumb question is this normal or is the battery about had it? Inspiron P3
>600mhz, win xp, with a wireless card.


It is nearly done. Performance will only get worse from there.
That's about a year longer than I'd expect out of a LI battery.

pheasant wrote:


Thanks Guys!

We'll leave it plugged in. Appears they are considerably less expensive
today then when I bought the last one should we decide to make it mobile
again.

Mark