On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:36 AM, Rob Owens <row...@ptd.net> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 05:22:46PM +0100, Klistvud wrote: >> Howdie, fellow Debianites! >> >> Just today I received the spare battery I had ordered from an online >> store; the old one had died on me -- as batteries are likely to do, >> eventually. It's an original HP spare battery for my HP Compaq 6715b >> and it cost just under 84€ with shipping and all. Now, the price >> represents roughly 14% of the retail price of the laptop (599€ when >> bought a couple of years ago). >> >> I'm wondering what's the battery/laptop price index for other laptops >> out there? Is there any brand of laptops which comes with reasonably >> priced batteries (say, costing substantially less than 10% of the total >> laptop price)? Would you ever buy a car -- or even a mobile phone -- >> having a battery that cost 14% of the entire car/phone retail price? >> Anybody care to share? >> > This laptop uses AA batteries: > > http://www.norhtec.com/products/gecko/index.html > > > This article says that many Macs use AA Li-Ion cells in their battery > packs. I suspect it's probably the same for most laptop batteries. > > http://lowendmac.com/musings/06/0908.html > > -Rob > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > >
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