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post #21 of 34
2/27/04 at 12:00pm
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Originally Posted by booga
This alienware thing has become an obsession!

I find myself saving the pics of your laptop!

(Except for the black battery, looks identical to mine)
Save all of them you want. Anybody have any requests?
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post #22 of 34
2/27/04 at 1:56pm
more pics of backpack , maybe same shots at different angle from different distancers, although ur first pics are good close ups I feel ur missing some intermediate shots....jmo
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post #23 of 34
2/27/04 at 2:09pm
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I'll take some more tonight. Have homework to do right now. The best thing I can say about the backpack is the laptop padding. I took the laptop to school with me today and had about 50 people ask me to see it.
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post #24 of 34
2/27/04 at 2:54pm
That's a weird place for a battery....
*snaps out of it* Argh! This makes me want an AW even more! Hmm... If I'm able to order April 4th.... then I've gotta wait exactly 37 more days to order and (if they hold the 12 day ship + 3 days shipping...[I'm guessing])in total I've only gotta wait 52 more days! Hmm... that gives me just enough time to get a good digital camera to give a good review!
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post #25 of 34
2/27/04 at 3:00pm
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Yea I guess it's just how they designed it. I don't know if I'll use the extra battery that much though. They seem to last pretty long. I've got 3 hours left on this one and it's only at 84%. I love everything about this computer. Good luck with getting yours.
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post #26 of 34
2/27/04 at 3:19pm
Thanks!
Remember to condition the battery though! Well... with the life on the sentias I'm not sure if it'll make much of a difference....
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post #27 of 34
2/27/04 at 5:13pm
lithium ion batteries have no memory and therefore need no conditioning
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post #28 of 34
2/28/04 at 7:29pm
Not according to craig:
http://notebookforums.com/showthread.php?t=14570
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post #29 of 34
2/28/04 at 7:35pm
Let me preface this with SS Mario is speaking what is generally considered the consensus about Lion batteries. Most people will tell you the Lions do not need conditioning. So don't pit his post against mine as the jury is still out on this issue.

BUT in my experience with many different kinds of cell phones, PDA's, Laptops, ect...condiditon the battery is NEVER a bad thing and can only help.

For instance, I bought a brand new GSM phone from AT&T last year. Sales guy told me the same thing "No need to condition". The battery lasted me about 3 months. I got a new battery (same exact one, I checked), conditioned it for a week...and it still working great today.

So for what it is worth, I only judge by my own experience...and my experience is condition every single rechargeable battery you ever get. It never hurts

My Area51m gets some excellent unplugged times...especially when I'm doing work related stuff on it that does not require the GPU to heat up.

-Craig
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post #30 of 34
2/28/04 at 9:53pm
what do you mean by condition the battery?
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post #31 of 34
2/28/04 at 10:08pm
Condition the battery is like this:

Charge till full...Drain until empty. That is on cycle.

I do one cycle a night for a week and usually my batteries last me for years and always give my component lots of juice.

-Craig
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post #32 of 34
2/28/04 at 10:23pm
When draining, can we do that with normal use? As in, use the battery until it's empty?

And, since the laptop won't let you use the battery until it's fully drained (It shuts the machine off at a certain percentage), how do we get the last few "drops" out? Leave the machine in standby mode overnight?
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post #33 of 34
2/29/04 at 12:53am
I turn off all of the Power Saving settings in Control Panel and run the sucker until it dies or hits 5% on the battery indicator.

However you drain the battery is up to you. I'd recommend a nice Quake 3 DM17 match with as many people as you can find.

-Craig
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post #34 of 34
2/29/04 at 1:23am
I agree with craig that it never hurts.....

That being said your not going to shorten the lifespan w/o conditioning as you would have with NiMH and NiCd batteries. Where not conditioning it could cost you over half your totla charge battery drain time and over half the total life of the battery. Again technically speaking a Li battery has NO memory, but again agreeing with craig it doesnt hurt.
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