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Re: OT: laptop battery life
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Barry Lake <[log in to unmask]>
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Barry Lake <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:00:45 -0700
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At 2:37 PM -0700 9/14/99, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>Sorry for the waste of bandwidth...  Laptop users: what would be a
>reasonable life expectancy for a Li-Ion battery?  I have one from an
>IBM ThinkPad 600 that's just about 1 year old, and it already seems
>to be dying on me.  The user claims to have done the discharge/recharge
>song-and-dance several times, but it still lasts for less than 30
>minutes.  Is a 1 year lifespan typical?  That just seems too short
>to me...

My trusty Macintosh PowerBook G3 battery is now 17+ months old and still
holds a charge for over 3 hours, FWIW...


Barry Lake                                 [log in to unmask]
Allegro Consultants, Inc.                  www.allegro.com
(408)252-2330

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