On Tue, June 17, 2008 11:20 am, Kenneth Burgener wrote: > At a price range of $200-250 you are obviously not going to get > something new. There are several laptops for sell on ebay within this > price range, but they are all used, which means the battery life will > probably be at it's end, so you will want to order a replacement battery > so you can get the 1.5 hours you are looking for. > > The thing to remember about lithium ion batteries are excellent at > energy density, holding their charge (low self discharge) and recharging > (no memory effect). The downfall of lithium batteries is their shelf > life. They begin dieing the day they are manufactured, even if not > used, so the older the battery the higher the chance of it being at the > end of its life. > > You could probably find something like this laptop [1] which closed at > about $200, plus $30 for shipping, and $60-$100 for a replacement > battery, which would bring you to a price range of about $290-$330.
Thanks for that... I've already been shopping on ebay, and I know what I'm looking at. As I said, I'm /not/ looking for a cutting edge machine by any means. My last laptop is at least 6 years old, and I was perfectly happy with it. In fact, if nothing else turns up, I may just purchase the same model off eBay, but I was hoping for a bit of an upgrade, and figured it couldn't hurt to see what people had locally. -- Matthew Walker Kydance Hosting & Consulting LAMP & MU* Specialist /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
