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Originally Posted by Bizzymammabee  If your battery life is that bad then you need a new one. When your home I would suggest a direct plug and not the battery. I think the standard battery that comes with most Laptops are ok. Plus a lot of the older batteries have the memory thing in them that makes it so that it will take only so many charges.
My mom got a new dell laptop last year and I kept on telling her to unplug it and not use it plugged in and with the battery a the same time becuase it defeats the purpose. She didn't listen and now needs a new battery.
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I don't understand this; I have a Dell laptop that I've had for probably 6 years and have always used it plugged in (the battery life is not very long), other than if I was flying (rare) or somewhere that the cord wouldn't reach. Is this a bad thing to do?
Aside from it being big and heavy (it's a model 8500) and slow now (I think I have too much stuff on it), I haven't really had too many problems with it. Other than probably user error problems...somehow I've lost drivers at one time or another so now I can't use the cd portion of it ....I'm not savvy enough to figure out how to re-install that driver or update it, since it looks like you have to do it manually. But I've used the heck out of it and that just happened within the last 6 months or so. I particularly liked the snap on covers for it; they offered several different colors but I got the tortoiseshell cover; whenever I take it with me on the plane, everyone always says "what a pretty computer", LOL.
My dh has a Sony Vaio laptop...he likes it, and it's cute b/c it's so small and light, but he also just knocked it off a desk and it's broken now
. Anyway, he doesn't really do all that much with it so I'm not sure how versatile it really is.