Verizon is about the only place you can get the authentic RIM product and matching door. Most other sites are out of stock and even when they are in stock they have the black battery door which looks like crap. http://www.batteryfast.co.uk
I tested this camera for a client. I didn’t have the light running for more than 15 minutes. The battery lasted approximately 6 hours before recharging. The LCD, however, had a few dead pixels – never saw this before. Tried returning for exchange and had to put up quite a fight. Anyone else seen this? http://www.batteryfast.com

The Sony laptop batteries cells are known to be defective. Lenovo will not gurantee us that
we have cells that are not defective. In fact they have confirmed that our Lenovo battery
packs have the same battery cells that are know to be contaminated. I am very upset that
Lenovo is not doing a similar recall of the known contaminated cells!
http://www.batteryfast.com/nec/op-570-75901.php
http://www.batteryfast.com/toshiba/l20.php

Verizon is about the only place you can get the authentic RIM product and matching door. Most other sites are out of stock and even when they are in stock they have the black battery door which looks like crap.
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Don’t you think that your applications should be more power-aware, rather than having to resort to closing down applications depending on whether you’re connected or not? I wrote about it here (http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2007/07/29/changing-perspective-on-extending-battery-life/) . (You don’t seem to have trackbacks…)

My Wifi LED on my Q1 is still on even after I disable the feature (from task bar); hope it’s really turned off .

Also how do you hibernate on a Q1? When I select Start-> Turn computer off*, then on the dialog box, there are only 3 options: Standby, Stop and restart (*=free translation fron the French OS). There is NO hibernate option.

How do you activate it? And then, does it still let you choose between standby and hibernate? The first one to use between frequent “off” periods during the day, and hibernate in the evening for a long “off” state at night.

By the way, when my battery reaches 4-5% the device automatically goes into standby; does it go further into hibernate automatically when the battery nears 0%?

If my new Macbook Pro with LED backlight is any indication, the days of stretching your battery by dimming the backlight are coming to an end. I’m not getting close to the stretch I used to get by dimming it.

I love ThinkPad tablets, but they’re almost twice the weight of my P1610. To me anything over 3lbs. just isn’t really portable, especially not to someone who works in NYC and has to walk long distances, laptop at his side. Every ounce counts…

That’s why the x61 Tablet rocks. It’s so fast that even when throttled down it’s still fast and gets good battery life too.

I guess I’m in the minority, but when I’m running on battery power, I go mad when power saver settings slow down the processor and dim the screen. Personally, I find my productivity so dimished that I prefer to just keep everything running at top speed so I can finish my tasks faster and not be squinting to read a dim screen or waiting for the laptop to catch up with my keystrokes because it’s so throttled. My reasoning is that I can put the machine away much faster to save what remains of the battery than if I was “saving” power but moving 50% more slowly. However, as I never see anyone else mention doing this, I must be a bigtime outlier in this sort of battery usage!!

The ThinkPad x61 has a Battery Stretch utility that can be used to manually set many different subsystems for those times you need to “stretch” the battery a few more minutes when it’s getting dangerously low.