Posts by betabilly

pureflows idea of remaining battery charge percentage is REMAINING USABLE CHARGE LEVEL. You need to turn off any PM timers/battery level limiters before you can deep cycle the battery. Run the battery down until it's dead and then...

I wouldnt discharge any storage battery that far so often without expecting some degradation. Go figure.

Deep cycle the battery 2 or 3 times and see if that helps. LithiumIon batteries are not supposed to have a memory but I deep cycled the 4 year old battery in my ThinkPad 3 times and now get 12 more minutes run time before the critical ...

It depends on what apps youre running and your PM settings. BTW, my V2403NR never lived long enough to run the battery down. A freaking POS, and BestBuy is just as good when you need a refund.

The fan should cycle on and off as needed, usually stays off for quite a while. The fans on both my ThinkPad and Presario stay off for a long time but never has anything locked up because of the heat. To take software out of the...

Just got this notebook to give my son for christmas, tried it out first (yeah, Ive heard a few horror stories about Presarios lasting 3 hours) and found an unexpectedly large amout of spam on it's desktop so I unchecked almost everything...