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
