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Question

Laptops with batteries built in

Aug 11, 2018 9:16PM PDT

HI, I just bought a new HP laptop, and was surprised the battery was installed.
Since it doesn't seem as if I can replace the the battery, should I use the power cord while using the laptop? Thanks for your help.

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Re: battery
Aug 12, 2018 12:55AM PDT

It's best to use the power cord whenever possible. It makes the battery last longer.

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Some have found
Aug 12, 2018 8:03AM PDT

That leaving the battery out creates other issues such as a corrupted drive on unexpected power loss.

At the office we use almost all laptops and they can sit for 5 or more years plugged in. A few units were cycled out and we found in one unit the battery has 80% capacity after 5 years being plugged in. The other was at 99% so essentially new after 5 years.

This is why I don't fret about this and just run it plugged in.

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Laptops with batteries built in and running slowly
Aug 12, 2018 5:50PM PDT

Thank you. I know there was a long thread on this before, and I read it,
But my laptop has the battery built in, I had never seen this before.
So, I do not know how or if it is replaceable?
I am also finding that the laptop, which is brand new HP with windows 10 is very very slow..
Any thoughts on this, please? I did uninstall what I know I did not need, like Amazon, etc.

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Since
Aug 13, 2018 8:41AM PDT

Since I've yet to find a normal laptop (more on that in a moment) with an internal NON-replaceable battery I have to write that it's usually the folk that won't or can't open it to unplug and plug in a new battery.

As to the non-replaceable battery models the model that I won't change a battery on is the Microsoft Surface models. Many are glued together and may as well be disposable when you need service. This is why I suggest the max warranty you can get on those models.

As to your new laptop and slow. Did you get one with Windows on old HDDs? I find that HDDs are just too slow for what folk expect today.

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Since... laptop with battery and slow
Aug 13, 2018 6:50PM PDT

HI, I was unaware the battery was built in until I got it home.
It is Windows 10,. I apologize, but do not know what old HDDs are?
There were so many things I did not want, I got rid of them,
Thank you for your help

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What is an old HDD?
Aug 14, 2018 7:37AM PDT

I mean old as in "old technology." Here's a wikipedia on HDDs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_disk_drive

Today folk expect a lot faster responses so we have to be sure the machine has the SSD for the OS at the very least. Otherwise boot and a lot of operations extend from a few seconds to tens of seconds.