Have had G73 for 6 months now - few questions

I have had my G73-05 for 6 or so months now and I have since not taken the battery out of the plastic caseing and used it..the battery has been used as a paperweight next to the G73 since day 1 I use my G73 as a desktop replacement and it is always on fixed AC power. My question is this. Is it bad to have NEVER ran a cycle or few on this new battery as Im sure they come partially charged from the factory but Im hoping that charge hasent diminished over the months and now I have a dead battery. SHould I do a few charge cycles (deplete to 5% then to 100% then to 5% then to 100% then to 40% then store) now?? Or just not worry about it and put it in the fridge as is (having never been charged from factory)?

Which brings me to my 2nd question. I read a little bit about BIOS 209 and it seems to have helped the throttling a bit but still throttling occurs (i.e kicks on at 35% and lower) I believe I am running stock BIOS 205 and have had no issues this far so IM not really concerned about updating to 209. My question is, has there been any update thus far that cures this throttling 100%? Like 0 down-throttle at all battery %'s? I read about throttlestop but it seems a bit invasive for me. IF I need to cycle my battery (as stated above) I dont want my throttle %'s for the laptop to change merely bc Im cycle charging the battery. Or do the throttle %'s go back to normal blast after I plug the AC back in?

 

I think they fixed the throttling issue. If you plug AC in, it will go full power again.

And it's better safe than sorry, so I'd say charge it down, recharge to 100%, back low, then back to 40% to store, just to be safe.

I pretty use mine as a desktop replacement too, but I haven't really bothered with maintaining my battery on this one. It's connected and is being used to support the calculator I have in the back to give it some breathing room and an angle. I don't really expect much of this on the go. I did take care of my Lenovo T500's battery, storing at 40% and in the fridge most of the time and only taking it out when I needed. But that had a battery life of 6+ hours or so...

 

I'm going to agree with Chango99.. with a max battery life of 2 hours, who cares if it loses charge over time? When you go to re-sell it (I imagine that's the reason), the person won't be impressed with the battery time even if the battery is brand new! If it isn't a re-sale thing, again, who cares? Leave it plugged in all the time, and the battery won't do anything either... or don't. It'll slowly deteriorate over time, it's what Li-ion does...

 

Do you have your laptop connected to a UPS? If not, put the battery in and let it charge. If for some reason the AZ heat kills the grid, you can still run your laptop to a safe shutdown.