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littleberry   06-16-2001 at 10:27:58 PM

What are some good choices for laptops that have
longer battery lifes? The purppose would be to use
for internet access (regular phone lines) during
power outages here in the boonies, and would endure
for several hours. My current compact armada only
lasts about 3 hours.
Alternatively, is there a laptop that can run directly off
a 12-volt battery supplied via a cigarette lighther type
adapter?
Littleberry

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Anonymous   07-09-2001 at 12:36:21 AM
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best long battery life I have found is a compaq aero8000 or the HP equiv I cant remember it number at present.
The aero will even take a IBM micro drive so it not a toy :¬) like most of the other CE options (pls dont flame me for that comment).
Ive just got one for my son to use at school (all day without a mains adapter and instant on no waiting for the long boot up.

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AEboy128   07-10-2001 at 07:50:44 PM
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The laptop you have currently is probably pretty close to the longest running that you can get. what compaqted armada do u have?? You could but a APS and use that to supply it with power. One of those should run a laptop for a while.

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Anonymous   07-23-2001 at 04:01:24 PM
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the best laptop computer which has a longer battery life is IBM A series and S30. In Korea and In Japan
there is S30 model. cool design. It is sub lapto computer sir the battery can exist more than 4.5 hours. And You can check A series IBM laptop computer. It has Ultrabay 2000 battery. It is
a second battery so when you install the second
battery + original one. More than 5 hours.
sorry for my poor English.

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zpyrd   07-30-2001 at 01:27:34 PM
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It is uncommon for most laptops to run more than three hours on a battery unless it has an ultra low power cpu.
Have you tried to find out if Compaq has a 12V automotive adapter available for your laptop?



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zengeos   08-12-2001 at 02:28:01 PM
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you may find that smaller screen notebooks have longer battery life. I can't say that forcertain, BUT the LCD is the most power hungry part of most notebooks. The CPU only uses about 10% f the power.

Mark-

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74merc   09-04-2001 at 01:52:54 AM
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most good laptops have screen brightness in their power management, it helps...

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