> So now that I still work at home, I make sure to unplug my laptop once in a while just to drain it down a bit. That's still a defect; the laptop battery mana

> So now that I still work at home, I make sure to unplug my laptop once in a while just to drain it down a bit. That's still a defect; the laptop battery management should do that for you. As an example, the Dell laptops I'm used to automatically drain the battery to ~95% when plugged in all the time (it appears to be at 100% while on AC, but when you unplug it you can see the true charge).