[GLLUG] the battery-less laptop

[Sean O'Malley]

You want one with a separate cmos/firmware battery.  All the Apples
portables are like this. (at least from the PB 140 series on up circa
90s).I know some of the PC laptops used to use the battery for their CMOS
settings. I don't know if this is a common practice or not anymore.

I had an old kaypro portable that didn't ever have a battery, but I
wouldn't exactly call it a laptop either. *lol*

Sean



On Tue, 21 Dec 2004, Scott Harrison wrote:

> Hi GLLUG:
>
>
> Just wondering if there are any possibilities for
> purchasing a laptop that can run without its battery
> (just working off of an AC adaptor).  I have not
> yet encountered a laptop that does this, but imagine
> that they have to exist.  (Custom-rigging a solution
> with the right electronics would be achievable too
> of course.)
>
>
> For a laptop that is used like a desktop, and if the
> batteries go bad, or if it becomes old (screen dies, etc)
> and becomes a test server, it seems that being able
> to run batteryless would be a helpful feature.  (Thanks
> for any insights!)
>
>
> Regards,
> Scott
>
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