As John O'Regan notes, it's possible that the off-mains usage time of my
battery is now down to 2 hours rather than 6. I don't know since I
rarely use it off the mains but wouldn't be surprised. What I am
surprised at is that it's still working at all after more than 6 years
of "abuse". None of my camera lithium-ion batteries have lasted that
long except the Energizer Canon BP-511 clone that's still running after
7 years. The original Canon BP-511 for the 5D came close but died at 6
years... perhaps from more frequent usage.
The Krappy Kolor laptop is perfectly usable for most things but horrible
for viewing photos. It's a normal TN panel with significant loss of
color and contrast off-axis. I think it's color performance is limited
by being (I suspect) a 6 or 7 bit device rather than 8. I don't attempt
to edit or judge photos with it.
And, of course, we have much different views on what's considered
"waste" that's significant enough to worry about. Certainly energy use
isn't your only criterion in selecting a car. Otherwise you'd be
driving something like a Honda Fit rather than a Bimmer. But you did
cause me to think about this a bit. Plugging and unplugging the
laptop's power brick is a pain since it's under the desk. An extension
cord with switch could solve that but likely rarely be remembered.
Maybe a simple timer could reduce the power draw. But only if the timer
drew less power than the idle brick and I have no way of knowing that.
Chuck Norcutt
On 10/3/2013 12:49 AM, Chris Barker wrote:
> Chuck
>
> I should have prefixed my earlier reply with: that machine and
> battery combination has clearly worked for you. And I suspect that
> the Kolo(u)r is probably not as Krappy as you pretend :-)
>
> But I still maintain that keeping the power going into it is a waste
> of energy – and resources if it causes the battery to fail early.
>
> Chris
>
> On 3 Oct 2013, at 01:04, Chuck Norcutt
> <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>
>> So, I clearly don't operate it to maximize it's life but it's been
>> running that way for more than 6 years. If it failed tomorrow I'd
>> buy an ebay replacement for $22 (includes shipping) and move on.
>> Or, if concerned about cheap batteries buy a supposedly genuine
>> Dell 9 cell battery from ebay for $60 and then move on. Tell me
>> again why I should constantly monitor my battery charge.
>
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