Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2002 17:13:53 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: reg@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sony Vaio 505TR and quad capacity battery. Message-ID: <20020224.171353.84405851.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <20020225012700.A78678@shale.csir.co.za> References: <20020225012700.A78678@shale.csir.co.za>
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Jeremy Lea <reg@FreeBSD.ORG> writes:
: My battery on my Vaio PCG-505TR has died, and I need to buy a new one...
: I want to buy a quad capcity battery (PCGA-BP54), but I thought I would
: bother the list first before forking over the dollars.
I have a PCG-505TS with a Quad life battery that I bought in Japan.
It is worth every penny I paid for it. I get about 10 hours of life
or so from the battery, depending on what I'd doing. more than enough
for the flight from Tokyo to US, but not vice versa. After about 200
charge cycles, I'm at 95% wear on the Windows monitor.
: Some web sites seem to list this battery as working with the PCG-505
: range, but it's not listed in the original documentation. I know a few
: other people on the list have the same machine, and I was wondering if
: anyone had conclusive proof that the battery worked in the wild.
I have the PCGA-BP54 on my VAIO PCG-505-TS. 6200mAh! The TR is the
TS with the screen that I wanted in it all along (the 1024x768 vs
800x600), iirc, but is otherwise the same machine.
Warner
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