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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

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I got to talking last week with Kiera Butler of Mother Jones magazine about the best ways to keep the rechargeable batteries in laptops and mobile phones healthy and long-lived. Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months.

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iFixit’s Basic Phone Repairs that Most of Us Can Do

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Our goal is to teach everyone how to repair the stuff they own—whether it’s laptops , snowboards , toys , or clothes. In the last 10 years, iron ore production has increased by 180%, cobalt by 165%, and lithium by 125%. User-replaceable batteries are key to lengthening the life of electronics like cell phones.

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