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For desk use, it's best for your battery to remove it from the laptop once it's fully charged. You don't want to continuously plug/unplug your laptop because th

For desk use, it's best for your battery to remove it from the laptop once it's fully charged. You don't want to continuously plug/unplug your laptop because that would just cycle the battery a lot, and that's not good for it either. As for me, I usually just leave the battery in: it's a nice UPS, worth the expense of perhaps a few months of lost life.

jackowayed 17y ago
Do you know if one can hot swap batteries (which would also allow simply removing or adding it) on most laptops that will run without a battery? I want to try removing the battery from my computer while it's running or putting one in while it's running, but I'm a little afraid of death.
- chops 17y ago
  I've never had problems hot-swapping batteries on my laptops while they're plugged in, at least with my Gateway.
- altano 17y ago
  If you're laptop is plugged in you should be able to hot swap the battery. If you're worried about data loss, put your machine to sleep first, wait ~10 seconds, swap the batteries, wake it up from sleep. This is safe even if your machine loses power totally while swapping out the batteries. OSX and Windows both support writing out your ram to disk, losing all power, then resuming from this state exactly where you left off when power is restored. It's the default on OSX and may need to be enabled on Windows depending on your hardware: http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/turn-hybrid-sleep-on-in-windows-7/ http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/turn-hybrid-sleep-on-in...
  - jackowayed 17y ago
    Yeah, I've done it after hibernating, but hibernating and waking up from it is like a 3-minute process for me. It's not data loss I'm afraid of (I always save, even moreseo if I'm doing stuff that might make my computer turn off), it's like sparks and other such stuff that can happen when you're dealing with electricity.
    - kgermino 17y ago
      I hot swap all the time, even if the computer is plugged in there should be no problem with sparks or anything like that.

jackowayed 17y ago

Do you know if one can hot swap batteries (which would also allow simply removing or adding it) on most laptops that will run without a battery? I want to try removing the battery from my computer while it's running or putting one in while it's running, but I'm a little afraid of death.

chops 17y ago
I've never had problems hot-swapping batteries on my laptops while they're plugged in, at least with my Gateway.
altano 17y ago
If you're laptop is plugged in you should be able to hot swap the battery. If you're worried about data loss, put your machine to sleep first, wait ~10 seconds, swap the batteries, wake it up from sleep. This is safe even if your machine loses power totally while swapping out the batteries. OSX and Windows both support writing out your ram to disk, losing all power, then resuming from this state exactly where you left off when power is restored. It's the default on OSX and may need to be enabled on Windows depending on your hardware: http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/turn-hybrid-sleep-on-in-windows-7/ http://maximumpcguides.com/windows-7/turn-hybrid-sleep-on-in...
- jackowayed 17y ago
  Yeah, I've done it after hibernating, but hibernating and waking up from it is like a 3-minute process for me. It's not data loss I'm afraid of (I always save, even moreseo if I'm doing stuff that might make my computer turn off), it's like sparks and other such stuff that can happen when you're dealing with electricity.
  - kgermino 17y ago
    I hot swap all the time, even if the computer is plugged in there should be no problem with sparks or anything like that.