Once again, greetings all:

Not being a PB owner yet, Im not sure if there would be a way to add more battery life to a PB. MY ideal PB would be the new 1.5Ghz 15inch PB, but cash is a little tight for a bit, so sometime in 04 or 05 hopefully.

Currently Im using an Ibm laptop which is slowly dying, but I like the fact I can put another battery in the ultrabay for more time. Do any 3rd party companies offer one of those "attach on the bottom" batteries which I remember seeing for certain non-apple models? Maybe just one which attached into the power connector in the back. 1/4inch thickness would probably allow one to get another hour or so of battery life.

Once I have a new PB, Ill check into it, I do video editing with FCP and DVDS2, so Id need it in certain cases, airport, train, etc...

mherrman

I knew I had seen this at a store before.
http://www.1800mobiles.com/ncharge.html
It'll power just about any laptop, apple included, and at the same time provide power for your cell phone!

Cool! Well, for $190, thats a doozy. I think I'd probably rig something up, maybe with a slew of rechargable 1.25v AA batteries. Ill have to look into Vah's to see what kind of times Id need, but looks cool!

mherrman

That would be an amazing mod. Take 200 AAs and string them together to power your G4 powerbook . If you managed that I guarantee you front page mod of the week !!!!!!

The nCharge sounds like a great product, I went to my local BestBuy and looked at one after hearing about them and would love to get one, just need the $$$. Odd things is though is that they do not recommend sitting your Laptop on top of them, but everyone does.

Does anyone have any experience with using a fuel cell based power supply with a PowerBook?

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I don't think the technology is quite there yet to make this work. Fuel cell or otherwise. It's in prototype stage. And all the other mods make the powerbooks too big to be practical. Someday, I can only imagine. Like Doc Brown putting garbage in the Delorean

Well here's a question .. how many hours of battery life are you thinking would be sufficient? Obviously, forever is a good answer, but I can still get 5 hours and that makes me very happy.

My old toilet seat iBook (Had a blueberry and then had to get the Indigo in the fall) had amazing battery life. I prolly didn't charge more than 2x a week!