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Toshiba's One-Minute-Recharge Li-ion Batteries

Posted by timothy on from the zap-zap-zap dept.

TheGuano writes "No idea if this is related to Altair's six-minute-charge Li-ions,, but Toshiba has just announced a similar Li-ion that recharges to 80% capacity in one minute, while losing only 1% total capacity after 1000 cycles. It's set to debut in 2006 for use in hybrid cars (my current Toshiba Satellite doesn't get very far on battery power, but it's a beautiful shade of blue), but 'should' make its way to other, hopefully smaller devices eventually."

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  1. they're still crap. by Loie · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    and i will never buy one.

    i do repairs under Toshiba's Manufacturer warranty and under the extended warranty from The Big Blue and Yellow Retail Crap Emporium.

    i feel it a public service to proclaim that Toshiba laptops are pieces of shit.

    case in point: if you're unlucky enough to have one of the models with the metal speaker covers, A45, M35, among others...well...those speaker covers aren't grounded. Which means if you rub your feet on the carpet and then rest your palm on the speaker, the static discharges through the speaker cover and arcs to the motherboard i promise, this happens *every*single*time* you touch your laptop. if you're of the lucky variety, it will only shut down and turn back on. if you're cursed, your laptop gets Trogdor'd. I hope somebody on the design team got canned for that one.

    "under-engineering" is a good word for Toshibas.

    and then on the complete opposite of the Shit Spectrum is Sony. i never really knew how something could be over-engineered until i opened one of those goddamn R505's. Little pieces of metal and plastic screwed down all over the place. They're never held together with less than 6 different sizes of screws. Daughterboards for *everything*, in the spirit of "oh we'll only have to fix the one thing!". Video board. Modem. Battery input board. RJ11 jack. RJ45 jack. DC jack. Control/Power button board. LED status board. PCMCIA board. This would all be fine if any of these pieces were accessable without actually taking apart the entire fucking unit. But they're not. And if *anything* at all is wrong with it, the thing won't POST. The backlight turns on, and the black screen just stares. Taunting. Like it's saying, "HA! I'm not working. And it could be anything! But I'm not telling YOU! Have a day, bitch!" So, in order to actually diagnose the problem, I have to end up swapping all the fucking daughter boards until I finally get the Sony logo to show up on the screen. I FUCKING HATE SONY. even worse than toshiba.

    free advice from someone who's seen the guts of every piece of shit out there: IBM or Emachine. IBMs are just solid. Emachines have some issues, but are very cheap and easy to fix.

    but please, stay the hell away from toshiba and sony. they suck.

    goodnight...