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    I bought an IBM T40.

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by Swift, Oct 10, 2007.

  1. Swift

    Swift Notebook Enthusiast

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    Great laptop, this is my second Thinkpad, but the first one was provided by my University a little while back so I didn't care much.

    It's an amazing laptop to say the least. Anyway, I purchased it for a few reasons... XP Professional, I got it really cheap ($320 with a VERY nice leather case, 1.25gb ram, Pentium-M 1.5ghz), the Thinklight ;) and the battery life. One thing though, I have an extended battery and Ultrabay battery, and the laptop will drain the Ultrabay battery to 0% then start using the Extended, is there a way to balance the discharge? I read it's not good to deep cycle lithium ion batteries often... thanks.
     
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    Swift Notebook Enthusiast

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    obviously nobody knows haha
     
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    Benjamin Chin Notebook Consultant

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    Swift,

    Glad to know that you are very pleased with a previous model of the Thinkpad.

    The bay battery has a much shorter endurance than the standard or extended battery; and it takes proirity over the main battery in supplying power for logical reasons.

    The bay battery, being shorter in life, is never intended to take the place of the main battery. It is meant to be slotted in only when your main battery is low.

    This is the time you realise it takes over the main battery as the priority supply of power, giving you the time to swap for another main battery.

    When this is done, the bay battery is removed so that the fresh main battery takes over.

    The bay battery will come into the picture again the next round you need to swap for another main battery.

    So, now you see why the bay battery takes priority over the main battery each time it is in your ThinkPad --- to give you the chance to remove and change a fresh main battery, without having to shut down or relie on wire.


    rgds,
    Benjamin Chin.
    11 Oct 07
     
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    ponicg Notebook Consultant

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    LMAO. That's retarted.
    That's retarted. I say again.. re-tar-ted. Having the ability to near seamlessly go from 9cell @ 0% -> 9 cell @ 100% would be an AMAZING feature. Instead you have to keep your ultrabay battery out, then put that in when you wanna switch, then take it out... blah blah. That's silly. Being able to leave it in for roadwarrior power(I'm usually at meetings 9 hours a day on Tuesday... sucks but heh, I'd love this feature. Thank god my company has chargers in every meeting space)

    For the record, I'm not calling Benjamin retarted - he's only echoing what IBM designed. I'm calling their design retarted :)
     
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  5. Swift

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    heh cool, thanks for the replies ;)
     
    Swift, Oct 11, 2007
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