My laptop battery lasts 10 minutes

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Posted by DigitalMP on May-11-2008 00:40:

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Originally posted by me@t k@tie
My battery is completely useless - 0 seconds life. As soon as you unplug the laptop, it instantly dies. And I bought it only in August 2005. Shitty deal with them. My laptop's worth as much as a new battery right now, heh. I wish I could take it out, but conveniently the laptop wobbles (it's one of the support stands) without it. It would weigh nothing without it, grrr.

-= Cosmic =-

lmfao...mine too, and i bought mine in 8/05 as well. i just ordered one off of ebay though.

Posted by DigiNut on May-11-2008 02:02:

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Originally posted by chinamon
how is it strange? it could be wired so that an inserted battery completes a closed circuit. open circuit = no power.

Of course the battery closes the circuit. Kind of hard for any circuit to be closed or even exist at all without a voltage source.

The question is, how do some manufacturers manage to screw up the charging system so badly that the line voltage won't also complete the circuit? Normally you charge a battery by applying a voltage across its terminals, not by wiring in series with it. It's actually more difficult to manufacture a device that won't work without the battery, unless it's a total bonehead move like not drawing enough current from the AC source. Which makes perfect sense in the context of a company like Acer because they will skimp on the regulators/transformers in order to save a few cents.

Posted by Kamka on May-11-2008 18:12:

This thread and people's responses about their different respective brands of computers made me curious: does anyone here have an experience with a Lenovo laptop? Or with their services?

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