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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. Oh yeah by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    Unfortunately, charging and replacing lithium-ion batteries is expensive, and cost is definitely an issue

    And here we see the state of health care. You've got enough cash to buy eight laptops, wireless cards, wireless infrastructure, and server software for whatever meaningless task you're doing with them (quake), but you're too cheap to buy batteries.

    Tell us what hospital, so I can make sure if I get sick I don't go there. Do you re-use needles too?

  2. wtf? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    ok, let me get this straight. You want an effectively UNLIMITED powersupply (24/7) and you can't ever plug it in, AND "cost is an issue". In otherwords, you want free unlimited energy in portable form. Hmm. Maybe I could interest you in this "cold fusion" device or this perpetual motion machine.

  3. Microwave by Tom7 · · Score: 3, Funny

    You need to put special Microwave "power beams" in the ceiling, and beam the power to the laptops. Put these all over the hospital.

    1. Re:Microwave by AnalogBoy · · Score: 3, Funny

      And, hey, when you get cancer, you won't have far to go..