My problem is that I can’t find info on whether my laptop has its vendor parts that would allow (or would have allowed) me to change such settings. (I will then henceforth be plugging my laptop every time I use it.)Īnd then I read about “charging thresholds” (some from Lenovo’s forums) in which some 40/60% Start/Stop charging magic is nice for the battery’s life. I just learned that Lithium-based batteries are better off left on AC power rather than have them go thru the cycles: charged to 100%, and then unplugged to “drain” to 20%, charged again, and so on. Is it okay to run my laptop on AC power only-all the time I use it? (Battery is non-removable and of Lithium Polymer tech.) TL DR: Wiped Windows 10 and installed Linux Mint 19.1 on my Lenovo 330 (Ideapad) laptop and I don’t know whether it had the “charging thresholds manager” that comes with other Lenovo models.
