mmm... cheap
Monday, February 02, 2004, at 05:25AM
By Eric Richardson
I'm looking to buy an extra battery for my laptop. Right now I get about three and a half hours from one battery, so I figure getting into the 6 - 7 hour range will basically free me up to go unplugged all day. My laptop doesn't support having two batteries in at once, so it would be a deal where I would have to suspend to disk and swap them, but other than the hassle of switching them out to charge, that's not too big of a deal. Toshiba has the battery I need for $99. That's not bad at all. What's surprising is that their price is by far the lowest I can find. CDW, where I normally look for low prices, has the same battery for $140. Odd. Toshiba also has 256MB of RAM for $79, so if it turns out I've got an open slot (which I'm pretty sure I do, I'll most likely pick that up too.