Laptop Batteries Nowadays

[blabbermawt]

Well. Ive been searchin for a good laptop for me. probably a 14" laptop since those size of laptop are more majority here on my counrty (Philippines) and a limited 15.6 laptops unless its a second hand ones (wont risk).

And I just notice laptops/ notebooks nowadays regarding their batteries are NON-REMOVABLE.
I was looking for the ASUS X555 i5 and watch the review on youtube and the common problem (for me) is the battery since I'll be using that for 6 - 8 hours (maybe) for work. and according to the notebook/laptop itself specs the max of the battery is 4 hours straight (not sure though)

So my question is... is it fine running the laptop with the AC and with the battery on it? I guess not? or did those big company made changes to the laptop system which were you could run the laptop even the battery on it without damaging the built-in battery? and yeah it s**ks if you need to go to the service center yearly or even less just to change and buy a laptop battery again and again and agian.. -_- *sigh

 

[Someone Somewhere]

you could run the laptop even the battery on it without damaging the built-in battery?

As far as I know, this has never been an issue, at least not in the last decade. There is a remarkable amount of FUD surrounding Li-ion batteries.

 

[makkem]

Hi
Yes of course you can run a laptop with the charger plugged in,how else are you going to charge the battery.

 

[blabbermawt]

yeah i know.. "how will i charge the battery without the charger plugged in" but ive been using laptop 3 years ago. and evrytime im home i dont put the battery instead i use the ac adaptor directly. and after that i did use a desktop (current) and im in need to buy a laptop since i wont be carrying my whole desktop when i go travel thats why.

and yeah ive read theres. a software to balance the laptop charging to half so it wont damage the battery.. other say it the lenovo laptops has it.

does that software totally works?

 

[makkem]

Usually not software but hardware (chip) built into the charger which is designed to charge the battery correctly .
I'm pretty sure all modern laptops have no problem charging the battery while in use.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Usually not software but hardware (chip) built into the charger which is designed to charge the battery correctly .
I'm pretty sure all modern laptops have no problem charging the battery while in use.

Not the charger - that's usually pretty dumb and just outputs 19VDC.

It's usually a combination of a controller board in the battery doing measurement, and the voltage converters are in the laptop itself.

 

[makkem]

Usually not software but hardware (chip) built into the charger which is designed to charge the battery correctly .
I'm pretty sure all modern laptops have no problem charging the battery while in use.

Not the charger - that's usually pretty dumb and just outputs 19VDC.

It's usually a combination of a controller board in the battery doing measurement, and the voltage converters are in the laptop itself.

Yeah you are right ,a bit confused because Dell have a chip in the charger which I thought controlled the current of the charger but it actually identifies the charger to the battery and the laptop.