[ltp] Aggressive battery diagnostics on T42p, should I return these?

[David A. Desrosiers]

> This should give you a hint wether your device consumes to much or 
> the batteries are damaged.

         Looking at IBM's own page, they claim 7.5 hours of runtime 
with the battery cells I have, using WinStone's Battery Rundown 
utility. I'm getting less than 25% of that amount with my two 9-cell 
batteries:


http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-55339

         Either their stats are completely false, or they're 
manufacturing batteries which don't even come REMOTELY close to these 
figures.

         I'll call IBM and see what they can do for me.


David A. Desrosiers
desrod@gnu-designs.com
http://gnu-designs.com