>>>>You could try a new battery or ac adapter (try running without the battery in and only on ac and see if it still happens). I remember a recall of some laptops too in the past but it's not listed on their site....
>>doing the bolded step is practically no effort and good advice for battery life when almost exclusively running on grid energy IAC...
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>True, from what I've heard. My understanding is you reinstall the battery once a month or so to recharge it (if you let it self-discharge too much that's bad for its life).
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>One downside to doing this is you lose the (effective) built-in UPS function of the installed battery. So, you have to start thinking about using a UPS with your laptop.

Depends on the type of usage: mostly I don't need this level of protection. We have less grid failures over here. My turnover is 2 month, but in reality the battery gets loaded every secodn week.