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Originally Posted by Aleron Ives
The best way to handle a laptop battery is to set a charging threshold of ~60% and leave it plugged in. Unlike mobile devices, a laptop can run directly off AC without using the battery, so you can just leave the battery half charged without cycling it at all. You'll probably want to exercise the battery once every few months. Leaving the laptop plugged in at 100% will degrade the battery faster, even though you're not using it.
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... which is why a lot of laptops have a mode that charges the battery to 70% or so and leaves it there. (You can turn that off if you plan to take it away for a while and actually *run* on battery.)