LOVE the new hi-cap battery in current MBPs

[N-OS X-tasy!]

Started this evening with a fully charged battery; after 2 hours of web surfing I'm down to 80% capacity. Not bad.

[IronMac]

What machine do you have and under what conditions?

I did a test a couple of days ago with my i7 MBP 15" and got almost 5 hours before it threatened to shut down. I turned it down to 50% brightness on the LCD, wireless only, with about 4-5 programs running and used only the Intel graphics chipset. It was also running an Apple keyboard and USB mouse.

I'm ambivalent about the result because it's not much different from having a spare battery.

[RAMd®d]

Except that you don't have to change the battery.

[IronMac]

RAMd®d wrote:
Except that you don't have to change the battery.

I'm sure that that does not make for very compelling marketing copy.

[vision63]

The hi cap battery is awesome, but I should still Be able to use a spare.

[davester]

vision63 wrote:
The hi cap battery is awesome, but I should still Be able to use a spare.

Nothing prevents you from plugging into an auxiliary battery, same as goes for the iPhone. I think it is far better to have a much higher capacity internal battery and a plug-in auxiliary battery for any extended use needs than to have two lower capacity batteries. If you're going to go to the trouble of carrying an extra battery around anyway, why is it a big deal whether or not you change it out for the battery inside the computer vs using a cable to connect it. You still have to carry the dead battery around no matter what. Also, the nice thing about plug-in auxiliary batteries is that they often have much larger capacities than the built-in batteries because the maker doesn't have the concern of conserving real-estate inside the laptop.

[Psurfer]

+ you can switch to aux power seamlessly, without quitting programs or restarting.

[vision63]

davester wrote:
[quote=vision63]
The hi cap battery is awesome, but I should still Be able to use a spare.

Nothing prevents you from plugging into an auxiliary battery, same as goes for the iPhone. I think it is far better to have a much higher capacity internal battery and a plug-in auxiliary battery for any extended use needs than to have two lower capacity batteries. If you're going to go to the trouble of carrying an extra battery around anyway, why is it a big deal whether or not you change it out for the battery inside the computer vs using a cable to connect it. You still have to carry the dead battery around no matter what. Also, the nice thing about plug-in auxiliary batteries is that they often have much larger capacities than the built-in batteries because the maker doesn't have the concern of conserving real-estate inside the laptop.
I'm not familiar with auxiliary batteries for Macbok Pro's. I have an older MBP that uses $39 Ebay batteries that work perfectly fine. But I'd be willing to explore an auxiliary version if it's cheap enough. I don't think it's asking too much to be able to swap out a battery. They don't last forever. My newer MBP (which I use at events) can last about 4 something hours.

[haikuman]

If you had a picture of someone putting that battery where the sun don't shine more people would get a charge out of it .... Never mind, thats not a pretty thought........:bomb:

http://answers.google.com/answers/thread...53514.html


Caveat, no jpegs allowed ~!~

[davester]

vision63 wrote:
I'm not familiar with auxiliary batteries for Macbok Pro's.

There are plenty of them around. Most of them are very high capacity batteries (i.e. way more than a laptop battery) so are expensive. I'm guessing there are some cheap ones out there too since they cost not much more to manufacture than an internal battery.but I haven't looked.