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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by pmlnr on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:40PM (#16736934)
Thinkpads can be told to limit charging, say, between 50-70%, but that is a very rare feature.
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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by _trampeltier on Monday April 02, 2018 @07:44PM (#16740520)
All Fujitsu Lifbooks I had in the last 10 years have another setting. They do not start to charge the battery if the are more then about 95% charged. So there is no need to take the battery out while working "on cable power". I often see somehing like "97% full, not charging"
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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by lorenzhs on Tuesday April 03, 2018 @08:59AM (#16744192)
That's a battery longevity feature and not a safety feature, though. Any consumer electronics device should be safe to charge to 100% and be left plugged in.
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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by antongribok on Monday April 02, 2018 @02:09PM (#16737339)
You can do this on the Dell XPS series laptops, as well as the (older?) Sony Z-series.

I have my Dell set to start battery charge at 75% and stop at 85%.

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Re:Laptop explodes while charging at Letchworth business by Quenty on Monday April 02, 2018 @07:49PM (#16740554)
The XPS line also tries to detect what to do based on usage patterns. Neat BIOS feature.
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