[ltp] Attention IBM ThinkPad 600e owners in the US...our battery salvation has arrived...

[Michelle Klein-Hass]

You know how buggy the ThinkPad 600e's batteries and charging circuit is, 
right? Well guess what...we can inexpensively bypass it. 

External lappie batteries have been in the $300-$400 range for years, so 
therefore they have been impractical for 600e owners unless they are quite 
well-to-do. My refurbed TP 600e 400MHz cost me $350. Buy a battery for the 
same price as my laptop? Yeah, right...

Finally some sanity is entering the external battery market. Valence 
Technologies now has a battery which Beast Buy is selling for $125 before a 
$25 rebate. The drive is rated at 5 hours of usage time, and you can get a 
piggyback battery that snaps into the main unit for 5 more hours. It's LiIon 
technology so no memory effect but they have a limited lifespan. 3 years, I 
think. Still, 3 years is better than the matter of months some people have 
been getting from the buggy 600e battery system.

Here's the link to Beast Buy's page on it:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?type=product&id=1075583127535

Here also is the manufacturer's page:
http://www.valence.com/technologies.asp

And here's the mfg. page on the product:
http://www.valence.com/ncharge2.asp

I'm all over this, man...

Take care,
Michelle
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Michelle Klein-Hass
Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273
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