[plug] Notebooks

[Craig Ringer]

Chris Caston wrote:

> I honestly thing they should sell laptops that don't even have batteries
> and rely either solely on AC or let you put a universal battery into the
> USB port.

Interesting. Anything like that would drive me _nuts_ personally, as I 
like to carry as little as possible around with me and my laptop is 
quite big and chunky enough all by its self. I also use it on the bus 
and in other places where external devices would be very inconvenient. I 
can see the utility of something like that for people who only use their 
laptop when set up somewhere, though.

I doubt the USB standard could permit enough power draw. I suspect 
FireWire would be more able to handle the load - I think it permits 
considerably more power draw than USB. Perhaps still not enough, though.

Anyway, I'm keeping my internal battery. I fully intend my next laptop 
to have two internal battery bays - it's not like I ever use the CD-ROM 
anyway, and hardly ever use the floppy drive.

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Craig Ringer