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- From: peted@microsoft.com (Peter Duniho)
- Subject: Re: Wanted: Lots of batteries
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.214358.28416@microsoft.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 21:43:58 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Nov2.022352.25531@u.washington.edu> <Bx3v1y.KKt@ars2.uucp> <1992Nov15.083424.15307@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- In article <1992Nov15.083424.15307@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- >briank@ars2.uucp (D. Brian Kimmel) writes:
- >>The battery pack should cost about $5 to $10 to make and Apple wants
- >>$80 to $90 for them. The price seems outrageous to all concerned.
- >
- >Have you actually *priced* nicads? I'd be *real* surprised if you could
- >get 10-AA nicads for $5.
-
- $5 might be an unreasonably low estimate, but $10 isn't. I got
- an 8-pack of Panisonic AA NiCads at Costco for about $10 (I can't remember
- the exact price). In any case, they would cost no where near the
- Apple price of $80 to $90 (assuming that's the correct Apple
- price...I'm not making any claims about that).
-
- Of course, there's the issue of whether your average AA NiCad can
- supply as much electricity (amp-hour-wise) as Apple's batteries.
- You might wind up needing four (for instance) batteries (in parallel)
- to Apple's one to get the batteries to last as long, and then between
- the convenience (you'd obviously have to build some sort of adapter and
- keep the batteries themselves outside of the laptop) and cost of the extra
- batteries, you'd be better off with Apple's battery pack.
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