[Adamski47]

Dumb question that I know a ton of you will know:

I have a laptop, HP Pavilion zv5000. The battery in it has basically been sucked down to a life of about a half hour (from 2 to 2.5 hours before).

Anyway, my gf has one that allows you to leave the 'top plugged in without draining the battery once it becomes full; sort of like a cell phone charger. What is this? Can I get this for my laptop? Her's is a few months newer than mine but I doubt this is STATE OF THE ART TECHNOLOGY or anything.

I get screwed because at work I have to up and leave my cpu a lot and I just forget all of the time to unplug the AC power.

Thank you.