[TriLUG] Advice on an ultra-light notebook

[David A. Cafaro]

Is the battery life poor, just because the battery is old?  You could  
get a new battery, or have your old battery "refurbed".

I have the Sharp MM20 and my stock battery was down from about 4hrs  
of life to 1 hour of life.  Unfortunately they don't make the  
batteries any more but I did find this site:

http://www.batteryrefill.com/laptops/sharp/CE-BL23.phtml

There service was fine, and I got my battery back pretty quick.  It's  
now back to it's original charge time.  I will warn you though, when  
they say cosmetic damage, they aren't kidding.  The think looks like  
it was run over by a bulldozer and then cleaned up using a couple  
sticks of dynamite to blast off the big pieces of plastic.  Ok, maybe  
not that bad, but it's definitely not pretty, but when installed in  
the laptop it's almost completely unnoticeable.

Just another option for you.


On Jan 16, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Andrew Perrin wrote:

> It's getting to be time to replace my laptop, which is currently a  
> Sharp
> Actius PC-MM10. I like it a lot - particularly its extremely light  
> weight
> and ease of carrying. However, battery life is poor.  Any advice? I  
> need
> it to run linux competently and preferably have built-in both  
> ethernet and
> wi-fi. Built-in bluetooth would be a plus, but not an important  
> one. Very
> light and good battery life are the most important.
>
> Thanks,
> Andy
>
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