[GLLUG] the battery-less laptop

pedro wald pedrowald at yahoo.com.br
Thu Dec 23 19:48:41 EST 2004


I tend to think that the battery works as a filter of the power coming from the power outlet, and also as a real UPS (not a passive UPS) the ones in which the power always come primarily from the battery (from power outlet to the battery and from the battery to the computer). But I am not quite sure if such rationale is correct,an oversimplification and/or if it is valid for all makers, models and generations. If so, the use of a battery-less notebook could reduce the life span of the notebook  or make it more susceptible to spontaneous reboots, etc.. Would anyone have any input in that matter?

I just bought a notebook (that happens to come with WindowsXP). I need to repartition it in a non-destructive way (without having to begin from scratch). Has anyone done it before with NTFS 5.x? Has it gone smoothly?

Regards,
Pedro Wald
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