laptop batteries

[Claire Bowern]

I used an external battery on fieldwork this year. It was US$130 or so 
but worked pretty well. It also allowed charging of USB devices. I get 
about 3 hours from my regular vaio battery; this gave me about 5.5-6 hours.

http://www.amazon.com/APC-UPB70-Universal-Notebook-Batt/dp/B000KO0HKY/ref=pd_bbs_3?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1200842834&sr=8-3
That's the 70WH, there's also an 80WH

The biggest problem I had was taking it through airport security.

Claire

Valerie M P R Guerin wrote:
> Dear all,
> I came across this website that you might find of interest for external laptop batteries.
> http://www.getpartsonline.com/laptop-battery.html
> 
> Some batteries have an extended life of up to 8h (but they might take as much time to recharge!)
> 
> http://www.getpartsonline.com/pa3357u-3brl.html
> http://www.getpartsonline.com/pb995a.html
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> Best,
> Valerie
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> Valerie Guerin
> Ph.D Candidate
> Department of Linguistics
> University of Hawai'i Manoa
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> www2.hawaii.edu/~vguerin 
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