http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/ Engadget Comments for Hotswap laptop batteries let you keep the juice flowing http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 5:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
When you are going to change the battery, you plug the cable from the charged battery into the PC, which powers it for the time it takes you to remove the dead battery and slide in the charged one. Then you unhook it.]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
Use two batteries, but:

when at normal, it will use one battery at 100%
then, when you are running low, it switches to the other.]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 7:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
And of course most high-end machines with swappable optical bays take a 2nd battery that's hotswappable.]]>Feb 4th 2008 7:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
Either way you're carrying around two batteries, so what's your point? That the laptop itself is lighter when it's on...the table out of the case? Big deal. The 2nd battery has to be nearby to be useful so it's in your case. Weight is weight. Quote me on that.]]>Feb 4th 2008 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 10:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
I think by case he meant the casing of the laptop. The advantage of this over 2 batteries is that it takes up less space IN the laptop, so it can be smaller, or have room for eg. a dvd drive.]]>Feb 5th 2008 12:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 5th 2008 1:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
(By the way, we know you're just jealous, too. I sure wish I had thought of this!!)]]>Feb 5th 2008 1:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 5th 2008 1:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
just need to make it so it's not so cumbersom]]>Feb 6th 2008 7:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
It's hard to hibernate your laptop when you play games on the road like me.

Screw the PSP and DS. A Laptop is my portable game system.]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 5th 2008 7:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
However, this guy's idea is even better. I sure hope that they implement this -and- make the cord auto-retractable (I'd hate to put it in like you do a phone cord. :().]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 10:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
This definitely does improve on that though, because there's always the rare event of your laptop not waking up from sleep, and this avoids having to go into sleep mode.]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
Now that intel Macs are using more similar hardware to PC's, I don't know if this still works. My MacBook Pro will write a sleep image and hibernate like a PC lappy.]]>Feb 4th 2008 7:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
I would think that before you actually market this, you would try to build a working prototype, not photoshop one...]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Ric (the inventor)]]>Feb 4th 2008 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/R]]>Feb 4th 2008 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 10:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/macbook-air-review.ars/4]]>Feb 4th 2008 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/R]]>Feb 4th 2008 8:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
There are so many tempting gadgets - hard to decide what to bring with you]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/
Better yet, cover the external battery in solar panels, and allow it to charge the laptops battery as well.]]>Feb 4th 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 5th 2008 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/http://www.engadget.com/2008/02/04/hotswap-laptop-batteries-let-you-keep-the-juice-flowing/Feb 4th 2008 7:27PM