Does it take more electricity to have my laptop plugged in and at 100% all the time or plugging it in when the battery gets low and waiting for it to charge back to 100%?

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Does it take more electricity to have my laptop plugged in and at 100% all the time or plugging it in when the battery gets low and waiting for it to charge back to 100%?

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Adding to the answer above: You should not completely discharge or completely charge a battery very often. Just try to keep the battery at 40 to 80% capacity always, because even though laptops use deep cycle batteries, there is a limit to the number of complete charge and then discharge that can be done to the battery.

The best option is to:

1. Plug your laptop

2. remove the battery when it gets to 80%

3. Reinsert the battery when you remove power source

4. Wait until it falls to about 40%

5. Repeat

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