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Dummy accu (XPS M1530)

170 points posted to XPS products, Laptop Power by boaty Apr 3

Maybe it's an option to sell dummy accu's for all available laptops. I am not always using my battery and to save my battery life I would take out the battery. But because of the lack of a fourth foot under the laptop he will not stand solid. In the case of the XPS M1530 it's maybe an option to bring them out in two versions:
In the implementation of the 9-cell accu. Most of the time you are gaming you will connect the laptop at the AC. So its useless to let the accu in the laptop, but the airflow the accu gives is not useless. And maybe in the implementation of the 6 cell accu.

leolonewolf_nw08
Apr 3		 Perhaps not so much a dummy accu but an additional cooling feature if it included some kind of fan? When using strictly the AC supply for gaming or power hungry apps I think the additional cooling would be more beneficial. Good Idea by the way!
boaty
Apr 3		 I meant it more in the way of sparing the accu, to be able to use him longer, so batterylife will be less shortened or in every case over an longer time. Without 9-cell accu your airflow isn't as good as without accu. And I just want to sparre the accu by taking him out if he is completely loaded.
leolonewolf_nw08
Apr 3		 That is fine but I'm not quite sure if you entirely understood my post. It would be like blank accu without any cells in it and instead it would have a fan and maybe a small heatsink feature.
boaty
Apr 3		 Ok then you were right, I didn't completely understand it. But it would made it more expensive I think and technically more difficult to implement. But fundamentally it's also a good idea.
leolonewolf_nw08
Apr 3		 They could always design both options.
mandarinka
Apr 5		 Does that realy help? I mean, batteries in cheap (Inspiron) notebooks probably lose all capacity regardless of usage, ina about a year. On the other hand, battery in my ages old second-hand latitude (at least 2 years of usage - both battery and adapter) is still on the same level - 150 minutes, two years ago, it was maybe 165 :) SImilarly, my classmate has got an Acer laptop (somewhat higher model, I bet), that, after four years still manages to stay on for 2 hours and half!

But when I speak with somebody, who bought a cheap laptop (or should I say consumer line?) - Inspiron, Asus EEE, other brand lowend model, they universaly say their computer, after a year of usage, either can't run from battery at all, or lost half to but all battery capacity over time...

So there, removing the battery probably doesn't help at all, it is about the kind of batteries they fit those laptops with.
mandarinka
Apr 5		 A new idea, maybe? Does anyone know any hard data on this phenomenon?
mandarinka
Apr 7		 I guess it could help IF your battery suffers because of excessive heat inside the case.
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