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<\/a><\/p>\nThere are ways to check up on your laptop computer\u2019s battery without having to take your device to the local notebook PC store. Battery health is a comparison between your laptop manufacturer\u2019s advertised capacity and the current capacity of the battery<\/strong>. Most laptops have a page to show the condition of the battery health and give pop-up warnings when your Toshiba Tecra A8 Series Laptop Battery<\/a>\u2019s health is critical.<\/p>\n For example, with most Apple MacBook Pros you can hit the option key while clicking the the battery icon in the menu bar. This will give you a current status; if any option says anything but \u201cNormal\u201d then look into it. You can easily do an internet search to figure out how to check your specific laptop\u2019s battery life.<\/p>\n The way you charge your laptop battery can affect its ability to hold a charge in the long run<\/strong>. Some believe that you should let your computer drain and then charge it to 100 percent to keep the battery healthy. However, according to a Microsoft spokesperson, this might not be the best practice.<\/p>\n \u201cIf you frequently drain a lithium-ion battery, and then recharge it, it can quickly lose its ability to hold a charge, which affects the accuracy of the battery meter \u2026 \u00a0Lithium-ion batteries last longer if you charge them often, a little at a time, to maintain a minimum charge of about 40 percent capacity,\u201d said a Microsoft spokesperson in an email interview.<\/p>\n There are many widgets or apps that you can download to do this also.\u00a0 If you have a MacBook with Mac OS X Lion or an older version of \u00a0OS X, then you can download the iStat Pro widget for free. The iStat menu app is an updated, non-free version for new OS X. The iStat products can tell you your Apple laptop battery health<\/a>, cycle count, temperature and other information.<\/p>\n Think of a laptop\u2019s charging cycles the way you think of a car\u2019s mileage. Charge cycles are incremented every time you charge from point A to point B. Just as a car is only built to last a certain amount of miles, a battery is only built to last a certain amount of charge cycles. For example, charging from 70% to 100% is one cycle.<\/p>\n![\"6-cell-toshiba-pa3534u-1bas-battery\"](\"https:\/\/www.battaussie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/6-cell-toshiba-pa3534u-1bas-battery.jpg\")
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