laptop battery

[Raymond House]

Right ! like the touch features, most of that does not work under ubuntu,
some do.

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:35 PM, CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Most hardware vendors are getting pretty good now for putting manuals
> online, usually posting them in the Support section of their websites.
>
> Just keep in mind that the manual is written for Windows users, and may
> contain instructions that only work in Windows.
>
>
> On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 2:29:33 PM Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hey Cranky, thanks a lot I'll look at that,I wonder how you found that,I
>> have been looking all over and was getting nowhere.
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:25 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I found this in the User guide for that model laptop (page 44):
>>>
>>> For information on connecting to AC power, refer to the Setup
>>> Instructions poster provided in the
>>> computer box.
>>> *The computer does not use battery power when the computer is connected
>>> to AC external power with*
>>> *an approved AC adapter or an optional docking/expansion device*.
>>>
>>> For your reference, you can see the guide at
>>> http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c03837811.pdf (pdf file)
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon Jan 05 2015 at 2:20:15 PM Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Andy, I'm using an HP pavilion model 15-n041ca.
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 2:12 PM, Andy Boersma <Andy at boersma.ca> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Most laptops will run without a battery, but some of the newer Intel
>>>>> designed/build motherboards in them the CPU is cycled down.
>>>>>
>>>>> We did some test on a 2011 MacBookPro and a 2014 Dell Precision
>>>>> Laptop, both CPUs slowed 40%
>>>>> A Dell Latitude just continued at the same speed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Andy
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jan 5, 2015, at 1:53 PM, William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I suspect not as some of the charging circuits may need to have a
>>>>> 'load' be it ever so small but at least there.  The battery also serves as
>>>>> a large capacitor filling in during sudden large current draws such as
>>>>> drive spinup etc...
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Raymond House <raymondh40 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks for all the input on this subject,I guess what I'm really
>>>>>> looking for is can I run the laptop on the power supply only? without the
>>>>>> battery.
>>>>>>
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