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24/7 Notebook Power?

Posted by Cliff on from the carrying-your-outlet-with-you dept.

RobPiano asks: "Help! I am working at a health care facility that may be expanding its network to have eight Fujitsu wireless notebooks. These notebooks would be required to run nearly 24/7 with minimum downtime. Unfortunately, charging and replacing lithium-ion batteries is expensive, and cost is definitely an issue. The notebooks are placed on carts, so an 'on-cart power supply' is an option, but having it plugged in is not. I considered a car battery, but most of the nurses would have trouble pushing both cart and battery. How have you readers kept your systems powered?"

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  1. Okay, what? by CMiYC · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Let me get this straight. You are working at a health care facility asking about a health care solution, from slashdot? Where do you work? I want to make sure I stay as far away from there as possible.

    The last thing I want to see at a health care facility is someone rolling in a laptop and a lead-acid battery. (Which is probably the worse idea.) It seems to me there is a better solution, however, you have given no details. Instead, as is the new usual fashion, you have posted an idea you had in the shower to see if 1) you could get posted on slashdot and 2) anyone thought it was a good idea. (which, by the way, it isn't.) Or at least I don't think it is... you haven't told us what you're doing so its hard to determine that.