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MSI Wind Gets 9-Cell Battery, Unofficially
Posted by Mark Wilson at 1:45 AM on October 8, 2008
If you're willing to buy from a third party vendor, the MSI Wind now has an impressive 7800mAh, 9-cell battery available for preorder. Priced at $US180, it's not an inexpensive upgrade and it weighs a whole pound (450g). Then again, it'll give you roughly 6 hours of run time according to my real-world calculations. Lion Battery has some even bigger batteries for systems like the Eee, but alas, nothing for the top-cheapo-dog Acer Aspire One. (Note: if you're making the purchase, checkout with 'MSIWIND.NET' to save $US20.) [Lion Battery]
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evangelistc01
Posted 3:16 AM 8/10/08
Does this mean I can watch porn twice as long?
evangelistc01
impliedsurprise
Posted 2:56 AM 8/10/08
seriously! i need an aspire one battery pronto. the 3 cell aint 2 great. the fact that it's selling super cheap and like wildfire should say something right?
I'm curious tho, is it viable to create my own battery pack, maybe that just plugs into the AC adapter port of my laptop to power it with a stack of D batteries (or those sweet eneloopies) or am i asking for trouble and prolly blowing up my laptop in the process?
impliedsurprise
Earthslide
Posted 3:26 AM 8/10/08
@evangelistc01: Who's your favorite starlet?
Earthslide
Reilaos: Reading Comprehension is your friend!
Posted 3:48 AM 8/10/08
@evangelistc01: Only if you can last twice as long!
Reilaos: Reading Comprehension is your friend!
sean123456
Posted 2:52 AM 8/10/08
OH neato ill take its just likea regular laptop so it has internet/wireless correct?
sean123456
michaelportent
Posted 4:30 AM 8/10/08
Right now it seems like a race of netbooks to get the longest possible battery life. Now if only the Mini Inspiron can reach this plateau that the Wind and Eee have already hit...
michaelportent
ripfire
Posted 5:04 AM 8/10/08
@evangelistc01: What, 15 min is not enough?
ripfire
OddManOut
Posted 6:50 AM 8/10/08
Interesting. I was just lamenting a week or two ago during a trans pacific flight that my poor old P1120 with it's archaic Transmeta cpu for some reason couldn't maintain AV sync over an entire movie (of some files anyway), and that I should probably just get a netbook.
But it did actually play back video for (slightly) over 6 hours on a $50 six cell battery. At the price of batteries for comparable performance in these Atom based netbooks, I chould buy THREE batts for my Fujitsu, and run it for ~18 hours...
I used the fujitsu last year and it didn't seem to have the AV trouble. Unfortunately I did a tear down and rebuild of the OS since then, so it's probably some configuration error on my part. Maybe I should just look into better playback software until we see how well Via's Nano and AMD's Bobcat do in the Netbook space in the next 6 months...
OddManOut
hbcobra
Posted 7:08 AM 8/10/08
@impliedsurprise
You can make your own battery:
[www.uberreview.com]
hbcobra
takemetoyourtoaster
Posted 8:41 AM 8/10/08
for those worrying about all of the extra cost of all of this, you could make it cost the same or even less with this
check out microsoft cashback search to get some big savings, and the the battery would only cost a few dollars more than what you were originally going to pay
takemetoyourtoaster
henhen
Posted 12:44 PM 8/10/08
"it's not an inexpensive upgrade"....
man just say ...its not cheap...or its expensive...
man its too late here to mess with my head
henhen