Why does laptop battery show < 100% charge

[Richard Hughes]

2009/9/17 Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu>:
> The Lenovo power monitor on the XP side of my dual-boot laptop
> recommends not starting the charge cycle until the charge drops to 80%.
> I've been considering filing an RFE for the GNOME power manager applet
> to make that a user-settable parameter.

We'd need kernel support first...

Richard.