Yale and Columbia, some profs have banned laptops from class
altogether. In a more measured approach, the University of Chicago Law
School cut its classroom Wi-Fi signal this spring, citing an
"epidemic" of Web browsing during lectures, while at UCLA law, profs
can activate a "kill switch" to disable Wi-Fi if they sense an
attention deficit. The results, they say, are striking. "I'm getting
much better eye contact," says Michigan law professor Richard
Friedman, who installed a no-laptop policy in January. "It's been like
renewing an acquaintance with an old friend." To others, though, the
crackdown lets the real culprits off the hook. "If you're so boring
that students are zoning out, you ought to rethink if you should be
teaching," says UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge—though he admits
that he's flipped the kill switch in his own classroom more than once.
Tetris, anyone?
Step
1Place the laptop on a clean and level surface, close to the power outlet you will be using.
Step
2Examine the laptop power cable and identify the end that looks like a
power prong for a power outlet. Dell Inspiron 8500 Battery,Take this
end and plug it into the power outlet you are using.
Step
3Look on the back of the Dell laptop and locate where the laptop power
cable will be plugged in. This will be a small circular hole, about
1/4 inch in diameter. Take the other end of the laptop power cable and
plug it into this hole.
Step
4Charge the Dell laptop
battery by leaving the laptop power cable plugged into the power
outlet and Dell laptop.Dell Latitude D800 Battery, Dell Inspiron 8500
Battery, Dell 8N544 Battery, Dell Inspiron 8600 Battery, Time to fully
charge a battery will vary, based on the amount of power the battery
currently has.Dell Inspiron 1501 AC Adapter Dell Inspiron 6000 AC Adapter Dell Inspiron 600m AC Adapter
Step
5Check the power level of your laptop battery by carefully lifting up
your Dell laptop and pressing the button on the bottom of the Dell
laptop, which displays a battery icon. Zero to six green lights will
display, showing the current power level of the laptop battery. Dell
Inspiron 8600 Battery, This shows a range of power from zero lights,
meaning empty, to six lights, meaning full.
Here's what happens: The battery is not really dead,Dell Latitude D800 Battery, Dell Inspiron 8500 Battery, Dell 8N544 Battery, Dell Inspiron 8600 Battery, but it looks to me like some electronics inside of the battery are preventing the battery from charging. When I click on the battery indicator I get a funky blinking light and when inserted into the computer the the charge light just blinks orange instead of the regular green charging indicator. Did I mention the battery was working just fine a few days earlier with a charge hold well over 3 hours of work time.
This seems like such a rip off if you ask me. I started calling tech support to see if I could get a warranty on the battery. Of course the warranty had expired exacly two weeks ago, and there was no budging the Dell support guy. FWIW, Dell doesn't warranty batteries that are older than a year even if you have an extended warranty for the rest of the system. Dell Inspiron 9300 AC Adapter Dell Inspiron 9400 AC Adapter
Next I went to the Web Site to see what a new battery would cost and sure enough there's some language that says it's rated for 300 charge/discharges. Now I would really be curious how this is measured. I'm pretty sure this battery isn't actually dead, but something has been quietly counting roughly how the batteries been charged and decided - dup, that's enough for you buddy. So now I can't even use that battery as a hold over battery while the system is plugged in (I like to use the battery as a UPS since we loose power on a regular basis here on Maui).
At $199 list this isn't a game I like to play.
The worst part about this is that I rarely use the battery anyway. Sure when I travel I use the laptop on the plain or around a client's office,Dell Inspiron 640m Battery, but for the most part the machine is plugged in and under power. But even when it is - according to Dell the battery is discharged/recharged. If there's electronics in the damn battery shouldn't it be smart enough to figure out that while it's under power it should not engage the battery in any way at all?
It really eats at me that we get reamed by so many companies any way they can get you.Dell Latitude D800 Battery, Dell Inspiron 8500 Battery, Dell 8N544 Battery, Dell Inspiron 8600 Battery, Always stick it to you in the details. There are a couple of other things that happened today that go along with that but I'll leave that for yet another rant ... Dell Inspiron 630m AC Adapter Dell Inspiron 6400 AC Adapter Dell Inspiron 9200 AC Adapter
The
tech revolution at the nation's top law and business schools, where
students now routinely use laptops and wireless connections in class,
has created an insurgent population: professors, who believe they're
losing the fight against wandering minds. In retaliation, at schools
such as Harvard,
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