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You've Been Charging Your Laptop Wrong Your Whole Life
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You've Been Charging Your Laptop Wrong Your Whole Life

Experts say this one habit is quietly wearing your battery down.

Leaving your laptop plugged in at 100 percent all day isn't keeping it healthy, it's slowly cooking the battery.

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Modern lithium batteries prefer to live between roughly 20 and 80 percent, not pinned at the top for hours.

Loads of laptops now have a battery limit setting built in. Switch it on and it does the work for you.

It's a two minute change that could add years to your machine. Everyone's talking about it right now.

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