Lenovo Vantage Battery Conservation (Thinkbook) vs Battery Optimization (Thinkpad). The Thinkpad is superior and the Thinkbook feature needs to be improved.

Both of these features are designed to prolong battery life and both halt the battery charging when it reaches X% (default is 80%). However the Thinkpad feature lets you prevent charging altogether within a range. ie, you can a percentage that it must be below in order to start charging. This is key to actually helping preserve your battery.

I'm probably a typical laptop user where I might have it unplugged during breakfast so I can do emails while eating. This may take me 10-15 % of my battery capacity before I move to my office, where I plug it into my USB-C Dock.

At this point the Thinkpad will do nothing, because it is not below my threshold (I have it set to 35%).

The Thinkbook will automatically start to charge back up to 80%. Every single day, it charges the battery back up. This greatly increases the number of charge/discharge cycles which is what wears out your battery!

My Thinkpad can go 4 to 5 days before needing to recharge and still has a great battery life even though it's over 3 years old.

Lenovo, PLEASE update the Thinkbook Vantage Battery Conservation to use the same logic as the Thinkpad. Your customers will lover you for it!

Thanks!

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