Re: Dell battery nag-ware?

[Tim Hawes <timsyahoo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm on XP :-)

The only links I could find were to the Dell forum with lots of people
posting where to buy a new battery cheaply.
Perhaps the battery really has got to 60% (or whatever) and it _is_
coincidence that it happened on the machine's 4th birthday.

Thanks,

Tim.



On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Phillip Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I assume you are now running Windows 7 which is supposed to give that
> message when a battery reaches 60% of its original capacity - if you
Google
> for it there's plenty of noise out there about Windows 7 and whether
it
> kills batteries but basically it's a "new feature" in W7
which is designed
> to alert you to a battery becoming worn out...
>
> Phil
>
> On 15 Feb 2010, at 09:13, Tim Hawes wrote:
>
> > So my Dell laptop has just had it's 4th birthday. Is it just
coincidence
> > that I now get a pop-up message stating that the battery is
"coming to
> the
> > end of its useful life" ??
> >
> > There's no doubt that it doesn't last as long as when new but I
still get
> > over 2 hours out of it, it's hardly dead.
> >
> > Is this a ploy to get me to buy a new battery, with the message
triggered
> by
> > age rather than condition?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Tim.
>


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