Laptop instead of system unit?

Question

laptops

I want to remove the system unit and use a laptop instead.
How can I make the laptop work with the lid closed?
And what about the battery? Keep it connected to the outlet all the time, or connect as the battery runs out?

Answer 1

Answer 2

First, give up the idiotic (yes, idiotic) idea of ​​​​closing the laptop lid. They work great in pairs, and after a month of such work, you will no longer want to switch to one monitor, even if it is twice as large.

And secondly, you shouldn’t worry much about the battery, I personally sometimes pull out the cable and let it “live” (a couple of times a week for sure) so that it discharges normally and charges it again. In general, you should not bathe about this and do what is more convenient for you.

Answer 3

This is how I killed the battery on my laptop.

Answer 4

In some laptops, when working from the mains, the battery cannot be removed , it serves for something there in terms of protection or something like that.
A closed top cover can contribute to overheating, it is better to leave at least a small gap, and ventilation is sometimes on top of the input / output.
If the laptop as a laptop is not needed at all, it may be reasonable to put it upside down, cooling will be better.
Regarding the killing of the battery during a constant connection to the network - xs, but firstly, the batteries cost around 1000r new ones somewhere, this is not critical. Secondly, we personally in this mode, the battery from 4 hours (3 years ago) began to hold 3 hours 45 minutes (now), no reason to panic IMHO.

Answer 5

Regarding batteries.
Lithium batteries, which are now used in laptops and other photo-audio-telephone equipment, are very different from metal hydride ones used before.
In short - MH (metal hydride) - to increase the service life, they require
* a full charge-discharge cycle
* storage in a necessarily discharged state
If you charge an undischarged battery, it has a memory effect, which greatly reduces its capacity. And do not believe the advertising slogans "we defeated the memory effect!" - it's pure scam. Reduced - yes, but the very process of battery operation is such that this cannot be avoided.
With lithium, it’s quite the opposite:
* it is necessary to store in a charged state
* the number of cycles depends on how much a discharged battery you will charge ... and the more discharged - however strange it may seem - fewer cycles. For lithium, a full discharge is generally not recommended.
And now it's time to talk about the service life. The fact is that in addition to these charge / recharge cycles, the battery begins to die over time, lose capacity, regardless of how you use it. Term? Different. 2-3 years. Because of this, having bought a new laptop of an old model (which has been lying in a warehouse in a box for a year and a half), the user may be faced with the fact that literally after half a year the battery starts to die for no reason.
Regarding the laptop. Does it make sense to remove the battery and thereby remove the built-in UPS?
The service life of laptops is not so long (3-4 years) to worry about the fact that by the time you decide to upgrade it, your battery was “like new”.
But this is my personal opinion and I do not impose it on anyone.

Answer 6

With a battery, there are several options. If the laptop is new, then there is a chance that it has built-in hardware overcharge protection. Such a feature seems to be software in the seventh Windows now. It is best, of course, to simply remove the battery if your laptop will stand for a long time.

Answer 7

Be careful with laptops that suck air through the lid. They say there are.

Answer 8

Remove the battery if it is. Will last longer.
The rest you have already been told.

Answer 9

Sometimes I left the netbook turned on and downloading torrents via wi-fi (and its adapter heats up like a small stove) with the lid closed, just turning it upside down (to suck in air better, because there are holes at the bottom) - everything was fine.
And once I left it standing on the table with motion running (a tool that takes pictures from the webcam when there is movement in the frame) for three days - everything was fine too.

Answer 10

what did the system manager not like? dimensions?
As for the laptop:
1. Never disconnect the battery. It will be for you instead of the UPS :) There will be no recharging, on the contrary, it is useful for laptop batteries to always be in a charged state. As for the fact that there will be a lot of processor recharge, in fact, once every 4 days this is not so much
2. I did not try to work with the lid closed, but it will be slightly worse to cool. I would buy a laptop stand with cooling for insurance, it is not so expensive. If there will be hard work or games, then he kept the lid ajar.
By the way, on your laptop, check how it heats up the upper left corner

Answer 11

I use the laptop just like a laptop once every three months, the rest of the time it is powered by the network. There is no less battery life. A similar situation with a five-year-old asus, only it has less battery life, but I think it's time for him because.

Answer 12

This is how I've been using my laptop for the past few years. If at home - it is always connected to the network and never falls asleep (I'm too lazy to wake it up, and people write more when they see what's online, plbs all sorts of antiviruses are scheduled to start at night). Haven't seen any problems so far. Perhaps the battery began to hold less, but somehow I did not notice it (I had it and the new one only held for about 2 hours, since the laptop is very powerful).

Answer 13

But I can’t pull out the battery on the Macbook pro, I’m mainly going to use it from the network, how best to maintain it? I understand it specifically not to discharge it so as not to increase the number of charge / discharge cycles ... or am I wrong? there is an opportunity to set the battery saving mode ... such as 80% for Sony and charging does not go further ... ???

Answer 14

The last sentence is a bit confusing. I meant not a battery, but a charger. I didn't even think about disconnecting the battery.

Answer 15

Hmm ... but how to turn it on with the lid closed?)