James Burrage at WebKanix

Just a quick post… The battery in my Dell Inspiron is fried. It’s been my main computer for around 18 months now and the battery has given up - holding less and less charge every month. Now Vista says there’s no battery at all - quite a pain if you want to take it through to another room, or hibernate whilst you take it in to town.

In fairness, the laptop has been fantastic and has Vista, XP and Ubuntu installed. I have no urge at all to replace it or buy a desktop machine, and have been thinking about scrapping the XP partition having not booted into it for months.

Looking on Dell’s website, another battery the same is £184.90 inc postage and VAT. However, when I looked at an Eee PC over Christmas it was only £200 odd. The Inspiron is very nice, but quite heavy to carry around and not at all easy to use on the train. I can get by with eeeXubuntu just fine on the move, too. The only thing is whether to wait and see where the new 9″ screen model will be priced and how heavy it will be?

Any thoughts?

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This poorly thought out rambling was posted by me, James Burrage, on Friday, April 4th, 2008 at 10:59 am and is filed under Technology. If anyone responds to this post, you can follow them through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.