Battery Life and preformance?

99.9% of the time my laptop is plugged into the charger. Should I select the High preformance option (hp laptop) for my computer to be faster since battery life is nto an issue?

 

There was a thread thread a while ago on this. Should help you.

 

But that was later turned over within the same topic. It turned out in the end that High Performance was the best.

 

But would wouldnt 100% proccesor use at all times overheat my laptop?

 

Just leave it on balanced - that's good enough.

a few points more or less in benchmarks... who cares?

Real world usage you'd get pretty much the same and a colder laptop on balanced.

 

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So what are you recommending, that the OP uses his battery? That would possibly be good for wear.

Storing a battery at 100% isn't ideal.

 

SO funny that this was mentioned.

I was recently talking to a friend of mine, and he was asking me questions about computer, and he was telling me his battery was barely holding a charge.

I mentioned it might be going dead, and he says "No way it's a year old", and I ask "Well did you use your battery alot? Put any stress on it? Throw it in a fire!?"

And he actually tells me whenever he uses his laptop (which is every day mind you), he UNPLUGS the AC chord, and uses it ON BATTERY until it's low power, then he plugs it in till full, then repeats said process.

He has done that, every day, all day, for a year.

I was absolutely shell shocked.

 

That extreme is pretty bad.

You have to take the middle ground.

I have no 8,6% wear ( used to be 7,2 recently ) - after 1,5 years of daily use - but I only charge to 80% for example - on the other hand, at home I run off AC.

 

I have very little wear (<5%) after more than 1.5 years. I keep battery at 100% while plugged in A/C every day since the power here isn't very clean and tends to cut out occasionally (usage like UPS).

 

Not if the laptop already cools itself fine. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

If you're worried about overheating, you can go for a notebook cooler? Or, since you're always plugged-in anyway, why not take out the battery some days of the week and using it plugged-in with the battery on other days? I haven't tried this and am not 100% sure this answers your question, but it's just a suggestion...