[TriLUG] Advice on an ultra-light notebook

[Andrew Perrin]

Very interesting, thanks. I'll think about it. Considering whether I can 
afford this Apple thing too, or potentially a refurbished Thinkpad X61.

Andy

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Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu
Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_
University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA



On Wed, 16 Jan 2008, David A. Cafaro wrote:

> Is the battery life poor, just because the battery is old?  You could
> get a new battery, or have your old battery "refurbed".
>
> I have the Sharp MM20 and my stock battery was down from about 4hrs
> of life to 1 hour of life.  Unfortunately they don't make the
> batteries any more but I did find this site:
>
> http://www.batteryrefill.com/laptops/sharp/CE-BL23.phtml
>
> There service was fine, and I got my battery back pretty quick.  It's
> now back to it's original charge time.  I will warn you though, when
> they say cosmetic damage, they aren't kidding.  The think looks like
> it was run over by a bulldozer and then cleaned up using a couple
> sticks of dynamite to blast off the big pieces of plastic.  Ok, maybe
> not that bad, but it's definitely not pretty, but when installed in
> the laptop it's almost completely unnoticeable.
>
> Just another option for you.
>
>
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Andrew Perrin wrote:
>
>> It's getting to be time to replace my laptop, which is currently a
>> Sharp
>> Actius PC-MM10. I like it a lot - particularly its extremely light
>> weight
>> and ease of carrying. However, battery life is poor.  Any advice? I
>> need
>> it to run linux competently and preferably have built-in both
>> ethernet and
>> wi-fi. Built-in bluetooth would be a plus, but not an important
>> one. Very
>> light and good battery life are the most important.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andy
>>
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>> University of North Carolina - CB#3210, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 USA
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