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2010年8月8日星期日

Laptop battery and AC power

Has Dell anytime warned the laptop users not to accrue affiliated to the AC adeptness already the adjustment is actually charged? If this is authentic why don't they actually acceptance that on the apprenticeship manuals?


Recently my laptop (just 2 months old-DELL Inspirion) had a dent ascetic out due to this problem. I didn't apperceive its bad to accrue the laptop on AC adeptness while working, if dell laptop batteries the adjustment is actually charged.


After this associate I searched in few sites and saw that experts acquire asked to abate the adjustment if we are animate with complete AC adeptness or abstruse from the AC adeptness if the adjustment is actually charged. However I account why the laptop manufactureres don't acquire this admonishing on their user guides. Also its complete affecting that this apprenticeship is not broadly spreaded a allotment of the community.


Have anyone had the above experience?


In theory, it shouldn't bulk - the adjustment will not accusation if it's full. In practice, it's the calefaction generated by the adjustment that does blow to the battery. In your case, something was adulterated - there should be no aftereffect on the mainboard or adapter from abolishment a actually accountable adjustment in the system.


In fact, there are affluence of notebooks now breadth you cannot abate the adjustment at all - a brace from Dell, but Apple's complete agenda is brash this way, so it's a arguable point and as added and added systems acquire non-removeable batteries, it'll eventually become accustomed operating procedure.

2010年7月22日星期四

Cooling Your Laptop, or Your Lap?

A number of companies cooling pads that are supposed to reduce the heat of the laptop. You put these pills in a laptop, and in general, a connected USB cable to send power to a fan, which draws heat from the computer.


Basic Antec cooling pad.
The idea is that if you can cool a laptop will last longer. In theory, that makes sense, the heat destroys the electronics, and laptops are prone to running hot. The only problem is: It is difficult to find evidence supporting the claim.

Antec, which makes power supplies and computer accessories, recently introduced three new models to its line of laptop cooling pads, which will also help prolong the life of a laptop. But when I asked the company for the evidence supporting this idea, Veronica Feldmeier, a spokesman for the company, not quoted. Instead, she sent me a document that merely repeated the statement - that a cooling device will also help prolong the life of a laptop battery.

Belkin, which makes similar products, and makes a similar claim about its usefulness, did not respond to requests for comment.

Meanwhile, Sheila Watson, spokeswoman for Hewlett Packard, said that "although we do not consider laptop cooling pads as needed, some users like to use from the point of view of convenience." Colin Smith, a spokesman for Apple, I went to a document available on the website of the company, recommending that users put their laptops on flat surfaces, instead of pillows or other soft surfaces, such as knees.

Kyle Wiens, iFixit co-founded a company known for its tear product called Apple - the dismantling of the new products to explore their dell laptop batteries depths - said in an interview that the laptop runs cooler, less often moves the fan with what the aging of the fan. To replace a fan yourself, Mr. Wiens charges $ 50 to $ 75 for parts. However, while his entire office runs on Apple laptops, no one uses a cooling device, he said.

Ken Colburn, the founder of Data Doctors, computer repair and data recovery company in Tempe, Arizona, said his company had "evidence of heat from the surface with different products that claimed to cool laptops and found none of them had a real impact. "He tested several models of Antec, he said, and found that they reduced the temperature of two different laptops around 5 degrees Fahrenheit. But that does not mean that the laptop will last longer, he said.

"The main reason to buy these devices is in the comfort of the user," said Colburn.

Meanwhile, new cooling pads are the Antec Mini for $ 15, and of basic (just a bracket with holes), $ 20, and the designer, for $ 25. To update the legs may be a small price to pay. Or, you can always save your money and put your laptop on a table. Anyway, the laptop goes to live ordinary lives, and nothing else.