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Originally Posted by nvnvgirl  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. |
From what I was told by the techno geeks in my firms IT dept. it's best to not use the battery and pc plugged in at the same time. If you are somewhere you can use the battery then use that only. If your somewhere you can use it plugged then use it plugged only and remove the battery. Most of these batteries have a max number of charges that they can take and by using the pc while plugged in and having the battery in it also takes away from the max amount of charges the battery can have over the course of it's lifetime.
I also dislike the fact that sixty days after getting my old dell laptop when I called for help they told me I had to pay for customer support...come now that is a bit rediculous. I had a fit. It also sucks that they want you to pay for a reboot disc. Like hello I am paying x amount of dollars for a pc from you and I have to pay for that too. It should be given like with other pc companies for free with your pc in case it crashes.