Satellite Pro L20 - 30 mins of battery

Hello

I recently only got 30 min max my satellite pro L20 laptop battery life.

I used the manual of instructions, looked up and followed the instructions for the rehabilitation of the battery, i.e. run battery discharged, recharge, etc., but he did not make a difference.

I've had the laptop for almost 2 years through the company I work for unofrtunately get any kind of it, support the it guy is like getting blood out of a stone - I would get groans able to ask the question.

Any help/advice would be really appreciated.

Thanks B!

Hello

Usually battery working time depends on the use of the laptop. If high performance applications run on the laptop, the battery working time breaks down.

If I understand correctly, the laptop and the battery is abut 2 years old.
To my knowledge after about 500 charge/discharge procedures time decrease the battery performance.
My laptop is about 3 years old and I can use my battery for about 20-30 minutes also.
My second Notebook battery died completely. I use this laptop only with the AC adapter / CC. In my opinion is nothing unusual.

You can compare this situation to battery for laptop with mobile phone batteries.
After several times that it of necessary to replace the battery.

Best regards

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