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I am currently using my netbook as a desktop replacement - the power cable is in pretty much 24/7. Each night I unplug everything (power, external screen, sound, external keyboard/mouse, external hdd) and go mobile. So it feels like I'm battering the thing. Am I hurting it?

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You are using it alright, I would not consider it battering but would be considered heavy duty use, it depends on the quality of the netbook how long it will last.

I use my G62 24/7 as a desktop, I do shut it down at night, occasionally I go mobile with it but not very often, I have and old Dell for that.

I don't see anything wrong with what you are doing.

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I follow two rules when dealing with batteries:

  1. The time lost caring for the battery of the laptop is not offset by the potentially saved money from batteries. It's more efficient to actually use the device in the way that's most efficient for your work than to actually limit yourself to protect the battery life. That's even more true with lithium ion batteries which happen to fail slowly with time regardless of their usage, so utilizing them fully when they are still new is wiser.
  2. Common knowledge about battery life is often wrong or incomplete, and can be mixed with knowledge from previously used types of batteries, so relying on any common knowledge about laptop batteries to protect them is not wise. You need to do your own research to ensure that the information you learnt is correct, which is too much of an effort.

However, the following might be useful:

  1. LiON batteries last longer when they are cooler. If they are kept at hot environments or are too hot during use this can shorten their lifetime. Heat is the main factor in the battery life.
  2. The general advice for storing LiON batteries for long periods of time is to keep them charged at 40% and at a low temperature.
  3. Don't wait until the batteries are drained fully, don't hesitate to charge them as undercharging is inadvisable, and charging them when not fully drained doesn't hurt.
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