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Old March 4th 17, 03:50 AM posted to alt.comp.os.windows-10,alt.comp.os.windows-8,alt.windows7.general
Ken Springer[_2_]
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Default How to interpret laptop battery results.

On 3/2/17 5:29 PM, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Ken Springer
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Can I say something like the battery has 94% of its expected life left?
Some kind of description/explanation the average person on the street
would understand.

Do you mean it holds 94% of the charge it held when new, or it's got 94%
of its projected life left (not likely to both be the case)? If the
latter, are you measuring that projected life in years (or months), or
in actual operating hours? (And how would you define end of life - when
capacity has dropped to 50%? 10%?)

I suspect, for any given sample of average people in the street, some
would assume you meant one of those things, some would assume you meant
another. So there probably isn't an easy answer.


I don't think the average person would know the difference. The average
computer user is not that knowledgeable in my experience.

I do suspect that most would go with the projected life left in actual
operating hours.


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