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where to buy laptop external battery

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  • 24-03-2009 8:21pm
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    Honda08
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    hi am going on a long flight soon and the battery in my laptop doesent last long, is there any where in Ireland that sells external batteries for laptops?

    like the ones on tekkeon.com or on apc.com?

    cheers


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    biko
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    Most computer stores would be able to source it for you.
    What model is it for?


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    Honda08
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    Magnus wrote: »
    Most computer stores would be able to source it for you.
    What model is it for?

    sony vaio FZ

    would like to have it for the long flight, otherwise i will die of boredom.....:D

    i like the tekkeon ones, but feck all suppliers in europe..


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    Alanstrainor
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    External batteries? Just went onto one of those sites you mentioned, they seem to be portable UPS's which is a bit ridiculous carrying around. Buy a new higher capacity battery for your laptop. That's the best way. You still probably wont get much more that 4 hours, at a guess, out of it. What laptop/model is it?

    EDIT: I wonder how much they weigh? I doubt they're light


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    Honda08
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    Alanstrainor wrote: »
    External batteries? Just went onto one of those sites you mentioned, they seem to be portable UPS's which is a bit ridiculous carrying around. Buy a new higher capacity battery for your laptop. That's the best way. You still probably wont get much more that 4 hours, at a guess, out of it. What laptop/model is it?


    they are portable batteries on tekkeon, and are quite slim,
    i know someone who bought an apc one, same size really neat, he gets 8 hrs from the apc and very light


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    biko
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    APC sells laptop batteries and also APC universal notebook battery, a hundred euro or so from Amazon

    The yoke underneath the lappy
    battery1.jpg


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    Alanstrainor
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    Magnus wrote: »
    APC sells laptop batteries and also APC universal notebook battery, a hundred euro or so from Amazon

    The yoke underneath the lappy
    battery1.jpg

    Interesting. Have to say i hadn't heard of them before, my assumptions may not have been all that correct!


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    Run_to_da_hills
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    Honda08 wrote: »
    hi am going on a long flight soon and the battery in my laptop doesent last long, is there any where in Ireland that sells external batteries for laptops?

    like the ones on tekkeon.com or on apc.com?

    cheers
    Is there something wrong with your existing battery? You can also get a 9cell or similar longer life battery.

    If you are using some of the older chipsets like the Pentium M or Celeron you are wasting your time as battery life in these machines were never that good compaired to the later Centrino models.


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