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The Dell XPS 13 also offers an interface in the BIOS that lets you set a charge limit, hours not to charge the laptop, and a bunch of other great controls. The
by sahaskatta 6y ago
The Dell XPS 13 also offers an interface in the BIOS that lets you set a charge limit, hours not to charge the laptop, and a bunch of other great controls.
The only big issue is that they don't expose it through a friendly UI within Windows 10. It's nonsense that I need to go to the BIOS to tweak these settings.
- jonfw 6y agoWhat's really nice about that approach is that I run linux on mine and it all still works perfectly!
- post_break 6y agoHonestly it’s great that it’s in the bios because I run Mac OS on mine and it still works.
- the_pwner224 6y agoThere's an application named something like Dell Command Center (maybe Dell Power Manager on windows?) that comes preinstalled with the default xps win10. Or you can get it yourself from the dell website. It exposes all of the bios settings. There's also a DCC package for Linux which can do the same thing. I made a thin Python wrapper which would read a number and set that to the maximum battery charge limit (e.g. $ battery.py 85). Unfortunately I got rid of the xps so I don't have the script, but it was very simple. Hard part was figuring out what the cmdline arguments to the DCC executable were.