DELL / HP bedzie uzywal NiMH

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Dell to use NiMH batterries in notebooks

The latest Inspiron 1000 series notebooks from Dell are equipped with 8-cell
NiMH battery instead of Li-Ion battery. Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to
follow suit.
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To może Ni-Cd wsadzą?

[barracuda7110]

Skoro są tacy hop do... tyłu. Teraz nikt nie kupi telefonu komórkowego z baterią
ni-mh a co dopiero laptopa!

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Dell’s decision to use NiMH (nickel metal hydride) batteries in its recently
launched Inspiron 1000 notebooks reflects the vendor’s new pricing strategy of
lowering the unit costs for the notebooks, according to sources at Taiwanese
notebook makers.

Rival Hewlett-Packard (HP) is expected to follow suit by the end of this year,
the sources noted.

The Inspiron 1000 has an 8-cell NiMH battery as its primary power source, with
an 8-cell lithium ion (LiON) battery as an additional option.

The 8-cell NiMH battery is about 15% cheaper than the LiON, priced at around
US$30, allowing Dell to lower the unit cost of the Inspiron 1000 by US$4-5, the
sources claimed.

However, users who wish to purchase an 8-cell lithium battery as an additional
battery are charged US$99, according to Dell’s website.

Local makers are skeptical about Dell’s decision, given that NiMH batteries can
last on an average of 1.5 hours, compared to five to six hours for LiON
batteries used in Centrino-based notebooks.

The sources also noted that leading Japanese battery makers, including Sanyo
and Sony, have already backed off from the production of NiMH batteries.

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he, he...

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ha, ha - normalnie sobie jaja robia! pierwszy kwietnia juz chyba byl, nie?
$5 mniej za komputer bo ma baterie Ni-MH a o ile obnizona funkcjonalnosc!

to moze zaczeliby wkladac po prostu zwykly akumulator Pb - bedzie jeszcze taniej!

akurat na bateriach w notebooku nie warto oszczedzac