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10-Hour PowerBook Battery

Posted by pudge on from the if-only-i-ever-left-my-house-this-might-be-useful dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "Valence has apparently caved to pressure from Mac fans and finally released iBook/TiBook compatible cabling for their N-Charge Power System. The N-Charge is a $300, 10-Hour Lithion-Ion battery that powers laptops and cell phones/pdas at the same time. The next step? How about adapters to power my miniDV camcorder?" There's also a lighter version that has about half the power, for half the price.

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  1. Less power, half price by EnVisiCrypt · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "There's also a lighter version that has about half the power, for half the price."

    Half the power. That would be five hours, right? Um. There's this battery that gets five hours and it comes free with the ibook.

    I'm not sure I'd be too keen on buying one of these devices, as I can't think of many cases where a fully charged spare battery wouldn't do the trick. I guess a flight to japan would require 15 hours of battery time or so, but I can't think of something I would want to do for 15 hours straight on a plane.

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  2. Probably too ugly for most Mac users by Nipsy356 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I bet they won't be encased in Titanium or White plastic, and that will turn off some users. Additionally, the size & weight issue, vs. carrying a spare battery (or even two) makes this somewaht redundant. Unless you need uninterrupted computing, you're better off carrying two spare batteries...