{"id":320,"date":"2006-02-16T05:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/wordpress\/?p=320"},"modified":"2006-02-16T05:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T05:06:00","slug":"laptop-users-this-might-be-worth-a-look","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/laptop-users-this-might-be-worth-a-look\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop users: this might be worth a look"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night, I was at the Saucer complaining to my friend Bobby that my laptop battery is a couple of years old and can only hold a charge for about 45 minutes.  He told me I should check out<a href=\"http:\/\/www.batterygeek.net\"> BatteryGeek.net<\/a>.  They sell external batteries for laptops and DVD players.  Now, it&#8217;s true that the batteries are more expensive than regular replacement laptop batteries ($169-189) and they are external, which means one more thing to carry around and plug in.  But, these batteries can go a massive EIGHT hours or even longer on a charge, which is two to three times what a regular battery can do.  I could take my laptop to a coffee shop or restaurant and work all day without plugging in.  Pretty cool.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, these batteries plug into the laptops&#8217; AC adapters and are fairly universal.  So if you upgrade to a new laptop later on, there&#8217;s a very good chance the battery will work with it too.<\/p>\n<p>Looks like BatteryGeek.net gets high satisfaction ratings from customers.  They offer a free battery audit:  you send them info about your laptop and they&#8217;ll tell you what battery you need.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m probably going to order one this week.  If you use laptops or other rechargeable electronic devices on the road, this might be a worthwhile investment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday night, I was at the Saucer complaining to my friend Bobby that my laptop battery is a couple of years old and can only hold a charge for about 45 minutes. He told me I should check out BatteryGeek.net. They sell external batteries for laptops and DVD players. Now, it&#8217;s true that the batteries &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/16\/laptop-users-this-might-be-worth-a-look\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Laptop users: this might be worth a look&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->