How to determine whether the battery can work properly?

Q: some time ago, I bought a one WINBOOK 6630 notebook computer instead of moving PC motherboard SIS chip (specific model unknown) because the graphics for the integrated 630/730) CPU mobile Tualatin 1.13G (To be sure, seen the kind of small fold open) Apple A1185 Battery Why use a computer for 3100MHA particularly almost all only one hour, I would like to ask for this reason that in the end because the power consumption of the poor quality of the battery or the battery capacity is too small or machine which parts particularly I used colleague's machine can be more than 2 hours battery capacity is about the same, why? electricity was too short to work too much inconvenience.
A: With the lower prices and improve the configuration, a lot of friends for their own additions to the laptop. Buy a laptop, I do not know the first time should pay attention to what.
First of all, I want to say, everyone's impression, all batteries are a service life of notebook battery life, but calculated in accordance with the charge and discharge cycles. But many people on this issue is not very understanding, coupled with the general notebook battery charge and discharge times are also at least 500 times, so many of my friends think that the laptop battery's life expectancy is about two years.
Apple A1185 Battery will self-discharge phenomenon occurred, once the place for too long, there will be discharge excessive. Once this level, a lot of battery but even the electricity can not be recharged on messing up the battery useless several times come to an end.
In other words, even if your battery for a long time do not use, nor capable stood the best over time on a charge and discharge in order to maintain the battery state. However, because the lithium itself has a certain amount of memory effect (usually said lithium memory effect is wrong, lithium actually have a memory effect, but very small), preferably within the first battery power is exhausted, and then charging, so that the effect will be even better. Of course, charging time is best controlled at less than 12 hours, otherwise over-charging can lead to reduced battery life.
After prolonged use, how to determine whether the battery can work properly? Is not difficult, said that the notebook battery with the increase in the number of working hours gradually shortened, using up less than half of the nominal use of time, or the use of time unstable long short, this time you have to be vigilant, because your battery may have reached the end of life, it is preferable to prepare a danger.
In fact, how to use a good Apple A1281 Battery, how to extend notebook battery life, has been troubled by a problem in the mind of the majority of notebook users, the above is just a general type of argument for the majority of users, specific to a brand, a model of the products , we had better ask around with friends of the same brand of laptop may get more experience.