> -----Original Message----- > From: Johnny Le [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 12:14 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: battery laptop? > > Hi, > > I just bought a laptop. Its battery life is about 2.5 hours. I bought an > additional battery, but it looks like I have to shut the computer down, > take out the current battery and put the new battery in. It seems to be > quite inconvenience, and taking the battery in and out the laptop all the > time can't be good either. I am new to this. So I thought there may be a > better way to do it that I am not aware of. Is there some sort of an > external battery that I can attach to my laptop? Or an external box that I > can put the additional battery in and attach it to the laptop?
Well... that depends completely on the laptop! Sorry - but there's absolutely no standardization amongst computer makers on this stuff (Duracell, I think, tried to market standardized laptop batteries a while back and nobody adopted them: I think the PC makers want to retain control on overpriced accessories). Some Dells come with two "bays" which can hold either drives or batteries (in other words you can choose to leave the CD ROM out and install two batteries) but with the smaller units this hasn't been seen much anymore. However there's no need to shut the system down completely. Many systems will support sleep mode for several seconds (long enough to swap the battery): out the system to sleep (screen and drives shut down) and try swapping. If is that doesn't work there's always "hibernate" mode (in Windows and I assume Mac and Unix although it might be called something else). In this mode an image of your memory is saved to disk and the system shuts down. You can then swap the battery and restore from hibernate: the boot is much faster and everything appears exactly as you left it. Hope this helps, Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:170600 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
