Lenovo laptop battery depletion The times of battery charge and discharge is directly related to battery life, e very

time you charge it, the battery forward to retirement a step. We recommend that you use an external power supply, use an external power supply when the bat tery removed. Some friends of convenience, often several times a day the power p lug, and the laptop is equipped with batteries, do more damage to the battery. B ecause each external power access equivalent to the battery charge time, battery life shortened by a naturally. Repair laptop battery loss 1. I bought a laptop more than a year. Formerly I often placed it in bed watchin g movies, resulting in heat dissipation is not unobstructed, accelerates the los s of laptop battery, I used to check the wear and tear of Master Lu, it is alrea dy more than twenty percent of the loss. I find some method of laptop battery repair on the Internet, some are saying use software, some of which mentioned discharge directly to the laptop on it. So I chose this method to the laptop discharge. Its really useful after testing. Previo us loss of about 28%, and to put two electrical notebook repair to 7% or so. Its f airly satisfactory. 2. The specific method of operation is very simple, unplug the power cord laptop charging, allowing notebook used to shut down the electric naturally, do not tu rn to the standby model though the laptop suggests that, directly use up the pow er until the laptop automatically shut down. Then connect the power charger, rep eated that once or twice. It can maximize repair laptop battery loss. Of course, the basic repair to 100% is very difficult. We have to be satisfied, after all, it has used so long. 3. The discharge to the laptop repair laptop battery depletion method, we can tr y and use Master Lus hardware health function tests and watch the repair effect.

Daily Laptop battery repair methods 3 Laptop batteries, particularly lithium idle for too long or just maintenance, ce rtain offset the charge curve and discharge curve generated with a truly full re lease after several cycles of steps to correct repair charge and discharge curve , also called battery self-learning process. 1. Settings (this is most important step to be able to repair battery the to the best state and we must pay a lot attention) a. Open My Computer> Control Panel> Power Options> Power Schemes, the use of this battery time parameters wholly-el ected as the never. b removing the two options hook of the alarm entry, for when battery to a few percent of the time the program will not respond to the approp riate action, laptop battery power is really run out, so that the battery itself

revised its lowest power synchronization with curve of 0%. Charge and discharge: After setting above, then full discharged in principle to the battery charge and discharge, back and forth two or three times, you can fix up the battery offset curve. Note: when charging, be sure to let the battery fu ll, the best way is to shutdown the laptop and charge a few hours or the one nig ht, and then pull the discharge, until the computer automatically shut off. Do i t at least two cycles back and forth. 2. When battery is in use or charge, the unstable factors will cause the loss of the capacity of the battery, but the decline is not caused by aging, so the app ropriate calibration is to be able to make this part of the lost capacity recove ry. So of battery calibration work is necessary on a regular basis, such as 1-2 months at a time. Like Compaq and IBM laptop itself is in the BIOS or power management program pro vides the battery calibration function, so people use the two brands can operate according to clew. For those who did not provide this feature brand users can f ollow the steps below: 1). Set the screen saver to no. 2). In the Windows Power Management set power scheme to "always open" and the fo llowing closure device menu all set to "never". 3). In the Alarms tab, the "low battery alarm" is set to 10%, the operation is s et to "not perform any operation"; "a serious power shortage alert," set to 3%, operating as "standby" 4). Screen brightness set to maximum 5). Confirm that all the windows closed, and save all the working data. 6). Confirm that the battery is charging more than 80%, unplug the power and all external devices, if the screen automatically reduces brightness, then dispatch it to the brightest. OK, you can go to bed, after the discharge, laptops will automatically shutdown, then plug in the power supply for laptop batteries, Note that we have to wait f ully charged before turning on power, and then restore the power scheme setting before calibration. 3. Use the battery refresh program to restore the battery discharge time. Brand laptop usually has a battery refresh program, we can use it to repair the batter y. There is a kind of software named "BatteryMon" which has variety of versions, is a specific small laptop battery monitoring software that can display dischar ge curve, and will run automatically after the installation. The battery that equipped with laptop, because of usually charge and discharge i mproperly, leading to the battery discharge time is getting shorter, only left l ess than 5 minutes, it is very inconvenient for you to carry a laptop to go out to work, ,what method can restore the battery discharge time? In view of the above, we can take advantage of IBM launched battery refresh prog ram to refresh the battery to restore the discharge time, specific methods are a s follows. 1). Use the AC power for laptops, first download the laptop battery refresh prog ram. 2). Restart your computer, press F8 to enter the boot menu and select safe DOS m ode. 3). Enter the directory you just downloaded the file, implement the battery refr esh program isbr0lww.exe, after reading the warning message, insert the floppy d isk as required, and then press Enter to execute the self-extracting operation. 4). Use the floppy disk boot the computer, screen appears Starting PC - DOS... h int information 5). Follow the prompts to unplug the AC power, the program will automatically di scharge the Ni-Mh battery, when completed, the system will automatically shut do wn. 6). Should not immediately start, let the battery cool down for a while due to t he high temperature of the battery, plug in the AC power supply.

7). Boot the computer with a floppy disk, this Autoexec. bat file will run refre sh program automatically, and asks whether to run. Yes is selected, press the En ter key 8). At this time, the refresh program began refresh battery, the process is soon , when returned to the DOS prompt A:> means that refresh has completed. 9). Turn off the computer and charge the battery until the light turns green. 10). The above procedure was repeated three times to get the best results. 4. Refrigerator freezing method 1) Wrapped the battery in newspaper before being placed in plastic bags, wrappin g into the freezer for three days (the newspaper to absorb excess moisture) 2) Take it out after three days and put it at room temperature for two days. 3) Fully charge the battery after two days (estimated to save 80% -90%) The approach consists of well-known battery manufacturers engineers, according t o friends that tested the effect quite effective. Whether it is effective, anyway, the battery is going to be useless, and everyon e has refrigerator, you may wish to try it

Laptop Battery Maintenance 1, activate the new battery, if you want your notebook battery have a long life, there must be a good start, which was to buy a notebook from talking about. New laptop battery at the first boot with 3% of the electricity (which is also comm on practice firms The first time you open a buy notebook, the battery is fully c harged, must be used by others), , you should not use an external power supply, the battery inside the power exhausted, until the shutdown, then use the externa l power supply charge. Home, but also the exhaustion of the battery after the ch arge, charging time must be more than 12 hours, repeated three times to activate the battery, so as to lay a good foundation for future use. 2, to minimize the use time of battery. This method gives the feeling seems to b e some stingy, but it is also the most effective. You know, the number of batter y charge and discharge is directly related to the life of one charge, the batter y forward to retirement a step. We recommend that you use an external power supp ly, use an external power supply when the battery removed. Some friends of conve nience, often several times a day the power plug, and the laptop is equipped wit h batteries, do more damage to the battery. Because each external power access e quivalent to the battery charge time, battery life shortened by a naturally. 3, power exhaustion after the charge and avoid charging time is too long. Regard less of your notebook uses lithium or nickel-metal hydride power, be sure to cha rge after the exhaustion (capacity less than 1%), which is the best way to avoid the memory effect. Saying there is no memory effect on lithium, I note in front of businesses irresponsible misled. Lithium also has memory effect, but its mem ory effect smaller than nickel-metal hydride Bale. Same as mobile phone battery charging method, when you charge the battery to the laptop, try to avoid too lon g, the general control within 12 hours. As for the prevention of exposure to pre

vent damp to prevent the erosion of chemical liquids, avoid battery contacts wit h metal objects such considerations, no much to mention here about that.

Three ways to verify laptop battery! Laptop battery strategy cheats When we talking about the advantages of laptops, I believe many of my friends wi ll be referred to its portability. Yes, notebooks greatest feature is excellent po rtability, you can let us feel the computer anytime brought us pleasure. And wit h excellent portability, while the notebook's battery life issues are also users m ost concerned about. As for the battery life, we have to talk about laptop battery, and for those exp ensive accessories of notebook, the batterys status does not high, but low status does not mean it is not useful, like a good movie, there is the protagonist and the supporting role of the points, while the laptop battery's role is a supporti ng role, usually look like much, but at the critical moment, to highlight its im portance. Therefore, the battery status is good or bad will be directly related to a laptop case in the absence of DC power's ability to work. So how do we do to proper maintenance of batteries? Those battery calibration so ftware are useful or not? Then Ill show for everyone. Here we introduce the follow ing three methods to calibrate laptop battery. Verification one: BIOS battery calibration feature Now laptops are especially prevalent, we use them whether outdoors or indoors,, especially when traveling or meeting, thanks to battery-powered laptop. But over time we will find that the battery life is not as just started so long, you can use three hours at first, but now only two and a half hours of battery life eve n shorter time. What does this happed? Shorter life time, the problem is not necessarily the battery itself For the use of time less than 1 year of batterys life get shorter, its not because t he battery aging but the battery in the number of charge and discharge process, the notebook BIOS system on battery power miscarriage of justice, such a case, w e can use the "battery calibration" method to give the fully play of the remaini ng power. Standard calibration method: using the BIOS correction function in the laptop. Many brands of notebook computers are integrated inside the BIOS battery calibra tion procedures, general statement is called "Battery Calibration", "Battery pro ofreading. Directly into the notebook BIOS battery calibration operation can be done. 1. Boot, the boot screen appears, press F2 to enter BIOS menu; through the left arrow keys to select the Power menu. 2. Enter the Power menu, you can see "Start Battery Calibration" option, select

it and press Enter to execute. 3. Then the screen turns blue, and English prompted, plug the notebook power ada pter to charge the battery. Such as the battery is fully charged, the screen pro mpts the user to disconnect the power adapter. After notebook continued to disch arge the battery until the battery runs out. 4. This process will take some time, after the battery runs out of power automat ically and shut down, then plug in the power adapter to charge the battery, but do not boot. When charging is complete (charging indicator goes off), the batter y calibration process is completed. Verification two: Adjust system settings for battery calibration While the first method is effective, but only for some old models, and we now us e a laptop battery can not be found in the BIOS correction options, so these not ebooks only through our manually to make books in some settings work in the disc harge until the automatic shutdown. In addition, I remind you that the battery calibration is the process of chargin g and discharging the battery, but it is not the purpose of our imagination to a ctivate the battery, because now the laptop batteries are lithium batteries, the re is no activation problems. The charging and discharging of the real purpose i s to allow the computer to re-recognize the battery capacity. So, try to dischar ge the battery completely, so that laptop working on smaller power, the verifica tion can be better. Then we take a look at the specific method of operation. The first step: We chose this test for the Asus notebook N55, WIN7 Ultimate operating system, fi rst enter the "Control Panel" in the "Power Options." Since ASUS Power4 computer has its own energy system, so we can see in the options, in addition to WIN7 sy stem comes with three options, there are two options for saving system Power4. H ere we arbitrarily choose a cell plan, after entering the "Turn off monitor" and "System standby" are all set to "Never." Step Two: Then we select "Change advanced power settings", the "battery" option in all of the options are canceled, the purpose is to let the battery is completely deplet ed until shutdown. The third step: After setting, close all applications, shut down WIFI, unplug the power adapter, battery-powered. Do not do anything until the battery runs out after the automa tic shutdown. This process is relatively long estimates, may take several hours. After discharge, even on the power adapter, the battery is full, then completed a battery calibration. Comments: After the correction, we can try battery life time is increased, if no t obvious, you can follow the above method once again, but not recommended frequ ently. If the battery has been used for a longer time and have done a battery ca libration, but the effect is still not obvious, it may be the battery life of it s own natural aging. In addition, if the laptop battery life is normal, we do no t recommend for battery calibration operation. Verification three: battery calibration software Finally, we talking about using a battery calibration software, now there are ma ny similar battery calibration software, the author also pick and choose the one experiment, then we take a look at the effect and Verification steps. The first step: This step is relatively simple, as long as we have said before the contents of t he previous page, first set the battery management options, and then confirm tha t the battery has been fully charged, and unplug the external power supply plug.

Step Two: Open the "Battery Doubler" main interface, in the "Wizards" tab, click "Recalibr ate battery" option. In the dialog box that appears directly click "Next" button to start the battery discharge operation. Do not ignore it, to be completely ou t of power, the computer automatically shuts down. The third step: In the battery is completely discharged, plug in the power cord off, and so the battery is fully charged, we will complete a "battery calibration" operation. Edit Comment: Although this software can be corrected on the battery, but the ef fect is not very obvious. In addition, many online battery calibration software with a Trojan virus, the computer has some damage. And the author during the tes t situation also occurred in crashes, software stability in general, it is recom mended that you do not use this method for battery calibration.

Battery common problems and solutions (1) Problem 1: install the battery several times but still fails to boot Cause: 1. Batteries are installed incorrectly. 2 dead battery. 3 battery is idle for too long. 4. Done deep discharge treatment 5 Other reason. Solution: 1 Carefully check the power connector and battery connector links are correct. 2 Replace the battery, use the battery adapter activate it in the case does not

boot not unplug the adapter, re-boot. 3. Always check the battery, do not idle for too long. 4 Replace a new battery. 5 Try to press the power button to boot. Problem 2: the battery is idle for a long time, with less electricity or without electricity when re-use Cause: 1. Idle power consumption is not more than the previous. 2. Storage battery itself quality problems or environmental problems, the batter y appears natural wear and tear. 3. Idle for a long time, without the right to charge and discharge operation Solution: 1. If you want to store the battery before 0% capacity storage. 2. Storage batteries as possible into some e around 20 degrees is most appropriate. 3. Appears from the loss phenomenon can be 4. If the user is not assured, then please storing it in the battery charge to 5 of the more dry place, the temperatur fully charged even after normal use.. replace a new battery.

Problem 3: show fully charged battery, but fails after unplug the power adapter, and ultimately lead to crashes Cause: 1. Working environment temperature is too high, causing the battery into the sel f-protection program. 2. Batteries during charging problems, resulting in distortion power display. Solution: 1 Turn off the computer normally, remove the battery so that the battery cooling to normal temperature under normal working conditions used, because self-protec tion program can restore itself. 2 Replace an original battery in the same environment check whether the same pro blem arises if there is no similar problem, then please contact the user service points, check whether the machine is faulty. 3. Proper maintenance and use of the battery, so as to avoid distortion. Battery common problems and solutions (2) Problem 4: battery is installed correctly and is free to charge and discharge an d the notebook operate normally, but the battery display information error Cause: battery or laptop interface is bad or the battery and laptop data exchang e interface damage Solution: Replace an original battery, if the same fault, it is a laptop with a battery interface contacts damaged and need repair. If the fault is removed, the battery output interface section is damaged, the user points to a specific bran d maintenance, repair or replace the battery. Problem 5: users want to buy a second battery, hesitant about the compatible or the original battery Cause: 1. A battery can not meet user requirements. 2. Machine comes with battery problems. 3. original batteries are too expensive, and too much market compatible battery

Solution: 1 If users feel a battery is not enough, you can buy two original adapter, put o ne in company, put another home, and you can charge your battery anywhere. 2 The correct maintenance of the battery, pay attention to use and maintain envi ronmental 3. Recommends that users not to buy compatible battery, compatibility is not goo d because there will be questions, suggestions users to buy genuine battery, or go buy a stuff called UPS uninterruptible power supply, it can protect the compu ter system continues to work for a period after a power outage time to enable us ers to save an emergency, so you do not work due to power failure or loss of dat a affected. In addition, the price is not expensive. Problem 6: In a state with adapter when install the battery the laptop automati cally and immediately shut down Cause: The battery is failure or the short circuit causes the interface section Solution: Users need to remove the battery immediately, and do not try to repeat edly install the battery, replace the battery as soon as possible to the service point. Through the six above-mentioned problems we can see, the reason causing battery failure often because of incorrect use and preservation methods, little individu al phenomenon is a machine problem, then how do we maintenance the batteries pro perly? Then I will tell you about the methods. Four laptop battery maintenance methods Laptop batterys quality and battery life is when you buy notebook particular conce rn, in fact, how to make good use of laptop battery, how to extend their use of time and the use of life and other issues, no doubt troubled by the majority of laptop users is a problem, and there are many methods and techniques, which requ ires us to pay more in peacetime use of learning and application. The next compa rison would be a brief four kinds of maintenance methods. 1. If you want your notebook battery have a long life, there must be a good star t, which was to buy a notebook from talking about. New laptop battery at the fir st boot with 3% of the electricity, you should not use an external power supply, the battery inside the power exhausted, until the shutdown, then use the extern al power supply charge. 2. Do not charge the battery when rainy: Rainy often thunder and lightning cause d by the transient current impact in terms of the battery is extremely unfavorab le. In addition, the process of using the laptop battery stable voltage is also particularly important. Users should avoid the notebook's power adapter and powe r appliances (such as air conditioners, refrigerators, washing machines) connect ed to the same power outlet. 3. Do regular battery maintenance: If you can not guarantee every time thoroughl y clean and recharge the battery used, then at least a month to carry out a stan dard charge and discharge (full charge after full discharge), or regularly BIOS built-in battery calibration function for maintenance, so that prolong the batte ry life is very good. 4. If some users use the battery for long periods, you need to charge a battery to power more than 50% during storage, it is a good battery subsequent use. In a ddition, the storage process must pay attention to indoor temperature, high or l ow temperature impact on the battery is relatively large, the best storage tempe rature is around 20 degrees. Distinguish the correct battery when replacement laptop battery Now comes the battery, then the user pick and choose when to buy books battery i s good or bad it will be inevitable, and most intuitive way is to look at the ba

ttery cell capacity. Laptops currently on the market, because the size and perfo rmance are different, with different types of batteries, which are mainstream bo oks with 6-cell battery, while the large size of the books mostly equipped with 8-core or even 9-pin batteries, small size, and thin with the general core is 3 or 4-cell battery. These parameters only when playing with a laptop, users can a lso choose the size of the battery capacity. There are also some people who has a better understanding of the laptop in the s election of products will be more focused on the battery "mAh (mAh)" unit size. Under normal circumstances, many of my friends will think mAh is a big battery u nit will have a longer life time, but the reality is not the case, we can often be seen on a laptop battery "6-cell 4400mAh", "4-cell 2200mAh" etc. numerical no minal battery, over time we believe that directly determines the capacity of 440 0mAh or 2200mAh laptop working hours. But in fact the real master of the battery capacity should be regarded as a unit "Wh", whose Chinese name is "Wh." Of cour se, "Wh" and "mAh" is closely related to the following formula: Wh 1000 = mAh. An d we also see the battery "11.1V 4400mAh 48.84Wh" such numbers, then these digit al how a relationship it is actually very simple, we only need 11.1V 4400mAh = 48 .84wh. In addition, I also mentioned before the current market of several commonly used batteries, then how do we verify its accuracy, one is professional approach, we only need to know the battery voltage and battery capacity can know in the end is few core friends. While the other is a notebook of this approach, we only nee d a 5 batteries weigh roughly, we can estimate the number of cores. Number of battery cell calculation method: Cell voltage: The voltage value 3.6 or 3.7 = n1 Batteries capacity: capacity value 2200,2300,2400,2600 = n2 The total number of battery cells: n = n1 * n2 For example: If a voltage is 11.1V, 4400mAh battery capacity, the number of batt eries: n1 = 11.1/3.7 = 3 n2 = 4400/2200 = 2 then the battery is the total number of cores: N = n1 * n2 = 3 * 2 is the 6-cell. I believe that through the above two examples the user can go pick out the batte ry while also preventing the scenes been fooled again, we only need to remember these two formulas, we can easily solve the problem of selecting battery. Replacing the battery of the laptop battery purchase method Currently laptop accessories market is complex, especially this one laptop batte ry, fake original, refurbished old batteries, no name and address, the warranty has become a talk of the so issues abound. So how do we buy a laptop battery? First thing to say is that the battery warranty period, we see the market there are many kinds of batteries, the warranty period can be divided into several typ es, such as three months, six months, and so a year. We say that the one-year wa rranty is a Class A product using raw materials, has a wealth of experience in l aptop battery development, quality control and process improvement, this battery are generally genuine. The product almost three months or six months have one t hing in common, and that is neither a manufacturer, address, telephone number, n either guarantee the content, nor the scope of protection, such cells are mostly demolished electrical waste battery recycling core and protection board, and ev en some not even protect the board are not, the cost is very low, the use of ver y dangerous consumer rights can not be guaranteed. Second, users try not to buy a compatible battery, although compatible battery i s cheaper, and will soon be able to get, but the danger also exist, such as comp

atibility issues, the quality of the battery etc. So I suggest you buy original battery quality with security guarantee, although the price is too high, but it can rest your heart after buying it , if some users do not want to buy the origi nal battery, then buy a adapter or UPS uninterruptible power to supply it. Finally I want to say is, for those friends who need to buy batteries, you'd bet ter go to the official designated service point, or reliable online shop to find out if there is a match with their own battery. Summary: after a brief introduction by the author, I believe many people have so me understanding of the battery calibration, I remind everyone here, although ca librate the battery will play a role, but we still have to use the battery prope rly, take a good care of the battery. Besides, I have told you the way to verify a battery when buying a new one. Lastly, I hope we have corrected the understan ding of the battery, do not think it does not matter to put aside, you will be a nxious when you really use it, so the best way of maintenance is to have a good habits and preservation methods.

Laptop Battery Usage Tips: Walk out of the misunderstanding of deep discharge Laptops equipped with the original battery, after a period of time after use, th ere will inevitably be the case of standby time. Some users said: "depth with re peated charge-discharge method, you can restore the battery performance, thereby extending battery life," I believe that this argument is a bit one-sided.To pro perly understand the issue, we have to start from the type of laptop battery. As you know, before 1995, the production of notebook computers are basically used nickel-cadmium batteries. If charging and discharging incorrectly when use this kind of battery, it will have a "memory effect", thereby reducing the battery's actual capacity. To eliminate the "memory effect", the best way is to use repeat ed charge and discharge. With the emergence of nickel-metal hydride battery, the battery capacity has been significantly improved, but the shortcomings of "memo ry effect" did not completely eliminate. In recent years, lithium-ion batteries in notebook computers has been rapidly gr owing popularity, since the lithium-ion batteries have basically eliminated the "memory effect" problem, so use repeatedly to restore the depth of charge and di scharge the battery performance of the method is no longer applicable. However, why would the lithium-ion battery capacity be reduced? The fundamental reason fo r this situation is the notebook computers and the inner battery management syst em of the original Li-ion battery. Battery management: almost all the notebooks in nowadays adopted the "battery ma nagement" and "charge-discharge control" in two chip-level management system. Th e "battery management chip" placed in the laptop inside the chip registers store s the computer used in lithium-ion battery capacity, temperature, ID serial numb er, charge and discharge status and times of other important information. The da ta in the course need to constantly refresh according to the actual situation. T he most important role of battery built-in "charge and discharge control chip" i

s to monitor and control the battery charging and discharging process and make t he whole record. Charge: lithium-ion battery in the charging process is divided into "fast charge constant" and "voltage current charge" two stages. The so-called "constant fast charge" refers to the beginning charging, the charging current is fixed and the charging voltage follower battery terminal voltage is gradually increased until it reaches the nominal charging voltage. When the battery voltage reaches the s tandard value, the control chip will be automatically transferred to the "voltag e current charge" stage, when the charging voltage will no longer continue to ri se, while the charge current to follow the battery capacity is rising gradually decreasing, and finally reaches zero, so that they complete the whole charging p rocess of the battery. At the same time, the charging voltage, current, and time data curve generated d uring the charging process will be recorded in the battery of the "charge-discha rge control chip" memory. "Battery management chip" is using the transfer of suc h data and sampling to calculate the battery capacity and other data, which is w hat we have read the Wh values in Battery Information in. Fixed: After repeated charging and discharging the battery, its built-in chip in the charge and discharge data will of course be changed. If the "battery manage ment chip" has no chance to re-read the newer, more complete data at this time, it calculated the battery capacity will not be accurate of course, give the user the feeling seems to be the battery capacity is reduced, and the fact the actua l capacity of the battery and does not really reduced. Some brands of laptops co mes charging management software works, is in the process of charging refresh "c harge and discharge control chip" of the data in memory, thus ensuring the "batt ery management chip" the correctness of the calculation results. If you have ever carefully looked over the laptop manual, you will find them the re. "After a month in the use of computers, you should make a full battery charg e and discharge operation" instructions. Its main purpose is to use the depth of discharge of the way to fix the charge and discharge control chip registers cur ve data, so that the battery charge control and battery nominal capacity consist ent with the actual situation, to arrive at the correct battery capacity value.

How to Choose a Laptop Battery Remember that old adage no two snowflakes are alike? Well theres a modernized version of the age-old saying and it goes a little something like this: No two laptop user s are alike.Each and every person that uses a laptop has their own unique way of d oing so. Because of this, a laptop battery that works well for one person may no t necessarily be the right solution for someone else. For example- the same way that an aggressive driver will take a heavier toll on a vehicle and reduce its e fficiency, an aggressive laptop user will put more pressure on a battery and the refore require a battery more suited for his style of use.When choosing a batter y, the main quality that you need to consider is the amount of energy that can b e stored in a battery. This is measured in Watt- Hours (Wh). For longer runtime per charge, choose a battery with a greater Wh rating.Before someone is able to accurately decide what type of battery is best suited for their portable power n eeds, they need to know the differences between each battery and what it is that each brings to the table. For instance, putting additional cells in battery pac ks turns a standard battery into an extended battery. While extended batteries a re a bit heavier and cost more than just a standard laptop battery, they allow l aptop users a significantly increased amount of time of laptop use in between ch arges. If you want longer runtime you should choose higher capacity but these batteries are higher cost and heavier on weight. If you want lighter weight and lower cos t you should choose lower capacity but these batteries have lower runtime.As we mentioned earlier, extended battery packs (ATDE68-09, LDE-68XT) are available op tion as well. These are ideal for those who really want to extend their run time and dont mind the heavier weight.Simple enough, right? Just remember- No two laptop users are truly alike. Next time you set out to purchase a laptop battery, be sur e to arm yourself with the knowledge that will allow you to choose the correct o ne for YOU.Note: When used under the same conditions, a lower capacity battery w ill wear out faster than a higher capacity battery because it has to be charged more often.