Were all my previous PC laptops in the desktop replacement category?  I am
not sure what the desktop replacement category is.  The last PC laptop I
used was a Sharp 2.4 gig P4, 15in display, and a gig of ram.  It was big and
heavy.  The battery was less then a year old, and it lasted around 45 min.
 Be for that, I had a Dell
700mhz.  It lasted no more then an hour.  Prior to the dell, i owned a
compaq. again, no longer then an hour.

I have not owned a think pad in a while.  The last one i probably had my
hands on was in the 200mhz days.

New advancements in battery technology have definitely improved the life of
laptops in the past 2 years.
One issue i did notice over the years, was power management under linux.  Al
thought it improved over time, it destroyed my laptop batteries.  I do
not know the current status of it. I have not used it on a laptop since i
purchased the ibook.

I have the same cisco card.  I think the 350 is very nice.  My ibook does
not have any PCMCIA support.  I assume it was sacrificed to keep the size
down.

-matt


On 11/16/06, eric(c) <ericlists@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Were all your PC notebooks in the desktop replacement catagory?  New
> batteries?  Even with a battery that only had half the rated capacity, my
> Thinkpad R40 got 2 hours out of the battery, including using an Cisco 350
> Aironet wifi card doing normal email/web type stuff.  My R51, with about 2/3
> of the capacity left, gets about 90 mins.  My Sony Vaio F480 easilly got
> about 6 hours between two 3 year old batteries.  My ex-girlfriends HP ze5200
> desktop replacement however, only got about 45 mins on a brand new battery.
>
>
> eric
>
>
>
> On 11/16/06, Matt Nesteruk < matt.nesteruk@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I love my apple.  It has been the best laptop i have ever owned.
> > Personally, i have never had a laptop last over a year without something
> > going wrong with it.  Prior to purchasing my ibook, I owned many PC brands
> > like Dell, HP, Compaq, and Sharp.  They were all good machines, but the
> > battery life was always horrible.  On a good charge, 45min to an hour was
> > all i could get out of them.  What good is a laptop if you have to be near a
> > plug all the time?  When my last PC laptop died, i went out in search of the
> > longest battery life in a laptop.  Apple boasted 4 hours on their 12in
> > ibook, so i purchased one.
> >
> >
>
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