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

[morpheus]

Just remember when you use this battery that the system thinks it's on
AC power, so you have to manually adjust your power saving settings.


On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 15:03, Michelle Klein-Hass wrote:
> 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
> -- 
> Michelle Klein-Hass
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