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Cursed with crappy laptop batteries?

You sick and tired of only getting one to two hours out of your laptop's battery before being forced to plug in?  You have two options: buy an additional laptop battery or buy an external battery pack.  My laptop only gets an hour of power before dying a horrible, gasping death.  Another battery, at $100 each, could add an hour to my machine's lifespan, but I'd have to either plug in or shut down to swap batteries.  At $150 I could get one of these Valence N-Charge external battery packs and add up to 5 hours of battery life to my machine.  You can even buy an expansion pack for the N-Charge and get a total of up to 10 hours of battery life! 

That's a pretty good deal.  Consider the alternatives:  for 10 hours of battery life I could purchase 10 batteries from Averatec at $100 each (that's $1000 for those of you bad at math) and carry around an estimated10 pounds in my laptop bag.  Or I could get the N-Charge + expansion pack for $300 and carry around an extra 2.8 pounds in my laptop bag.

Now - how do I get the company to ship me one for "evaluation" purposes?

-- Matt Ranlett

Published 10-08-2005 02:50 by Matt Ranlett
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About Matt Ranlett

One of the two original Atlanta .NET Regular Guys, Matt fills his free time by helping to run several Atlanta area user groups, the Atlanta Code Camps, and works as one of the two INETA co-Vice Presidents of Technology
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