Oct 8, 2008
My battery sucks
By: Kyle
Lithium Ion is a marvelous techology. It’s easy to say that it powers just about every rechargable-battery powered gadget that’s been released in the past 3 years or so. My lithium battery on my Dell laptop sucks. Period. Bad thing about rechargable batteries is that over time, they tend to lose their charge, not to mention the fact that Vista is a battery hog.
I’ve already had to replace the battery on my older Dell laptop once, and the one that this post is being typed also has received a replacement within the past year…but the battery still sucks.
I’m contemplating reverting back to XP, like many of my buddies out there in the tech world, but I haven’t made up my mind on that just yet. An operating system reinstallation takes a long time…time I’m quite sure I have right now.
Speaking on battery suckage, I have to wrap this post up because my battery is almost dead…
sad times.
kyle [at] kyleleboeuf.com
I agree. My toshiba battery was terrible. The MacBook is much better, but it’s only a matter of time before it gets unhealthy and loses it faster. As it is I’m standing at 96 cycles and 95 % health. I’ll probably do a drain down soon.