Zen and the Art of Laptop Batteries Maintenance

We all own more laptop batteries powered products than ever before, and in most cases those batteries are rechargeable. Be nice to your battery and it'll be nice to you Image courtesy iFixit.com That's a range, not an absolute cut-off point, so how can we make these batteries last as long as possible? Of all the rechargeable batteries we've used, the ones in phones have always proved to retain their capacity longer than batteries in laptops, cameras and MP3 players. It takes a long time, generally speaking, for a phone battery to reach the point where no matter how long you charge it, it goes from full to empty in a very short space of time.