HyperMac external battery powers MacBooks for 32 hours
By Nilay Patel 
posted May 4th 2009 12:59PM
posted May 4th 2009 12:59PM
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a quality charger for all the macies..now if apple could just come up with a a battery that doesn't explode
The exploding batteries came from Sony....
Should probably read now if only Sony could manufacture a battery that doesn't explode, since they provide batteries to most of the industry including apple. I am sure you can recall the flaming laptop news stories a few years ago.
NOW MAKE IT INTERNAL :-/
Meh. Here's the real deal for all you applets: http://a763.g.akamai.net/7/763/1644/3/app.infopia.com/img/image/fp/VPID/2856507/img3/img.jpg
that's still small. I've been using this for a while and it's 444kwh.
http://www.batterygeek.net/product-p/spps-19-444_batterygeek.htm
I needs this pack to power my 20W halogen bicycle loght that I made
i need this pack to power my robot suit.
i do a lot of recording outdoors, mostly for sound design for movies or other projects, I would love to have this portable battery pack, more recording time (especially since i power pre-amps and use condenser mics (need phantom power supply which is a total drain on my battery.))
maybe im the only demographic that could actually use this
It sounds like some folks are actually calling their beloved Apple irresponsible. How dare they! Apple is only responsible for the happy things. The bad things are not their responsibility. Faulty part? Not their fault as they only design the thing, they didn't build it.
First - to say this is a pos.
"Sure, I'd love an ultraportable laptop... what? I have to lug around a backpack with a car battery in it to power it for 'longer'? And you want HOW MUCH?"
I'd rather get something with a USER REPLACEABLE BATTERY (yeah, that was a jab at apple - it was a very very stupid and enviro-unfriendly move). Two extended user-replaceable batteries will do 25h+ (together) on newer ultraportables (see: X200/X300 and upcoming Lenovo offerings)
MBA FTL
P.S. FTP
@RoboDan - You are clueless.
@purezerg - Wow, very cool. 444Wh.. Yeah, baby!
Why would you pay 150 bucks for a car charger? Why wouldn't you just buy an inverter and use the charger that came with the MBP?
because most mactards arint that smart
To help fix the economy, duh! I'm doing my part by coating all my electronics in gold: http://www.instablogsgallery.com/gallery/2007/09/28/gold-macbook-pro-2_48.jpg
Because not everyone has logic like that.
Personally I have a nice 500 watt inverter, but you can get a cheap 100 watt one for 20 bucks. http://notebookcables.stores.yahoo.net/10cardcpoini.html
@Who?: That MacBook looks sweet! And will definitely contribute to the economy.
And I do the inverter thing all of the time, it's really not that hard.
You know I thought the exact same thing when I read the "splurging on a car charger" part. I think I got this power inverter 2 pack from Sam's Club a couple of years ago for $20-25. And the first one I opened still works.
"And puts lumps in your brain in just under 10"
Now someone just needs to develop a backpack slot for theses things and life would be grand
NOW THAT'S INNOVATION.
this is NOT innovation, its putting a huge (heavy) battery into a white case. Innovation is when a device is made smaller, faster, more stable etc...
This could be done with ANY laptop, its just that they chose to make it for macs.
Besides, the people who made this decided there were not enough crazy PC people to carry around a HUGE battery...............so they released it for mac
I believe "papari" was being sarcastic.
or I hope so. :P
this pretty much wins.
This sounds like a good product for laptops ... but the price
is a little too high ... needs to be cut in half ...
ahhh the eye sore its ugly, its horrible, its an abomination!!!!
Yeah, I know. Though the battery pack is pretty ugly too I guess : /
My wall outlet is also external and blows away this for capacity.
Not all of us live in our moms basement. Some of us actually travel.
how many "moms" do you have? Shuttle baby?
not all of us travel coach
Can this be brought onto a plane? That's the only place I see it being useful.
I suppose you could bring it on with you after you've been arrested for allegedly trying to bring in a bomb.
How long will it charge just my iPhone for. Would be cool to have on some long campin trips if we could keep our two iPhones charged for the week. Depending on how heavy it is.
Hey, 32 hours of fart drops. Awesome.
i think you can buy a generic battery pack that will do the exact same for about 100-200$ instead of paying apple of this crap.
500$?????
i just bought my Thinkpad x200 for 830$
You aren't paying apple. It's a third party vendor. Relax,
You can buy a car battery for $50. Either way you're going to break your back lugging it around.
But a car battery is like acid and all kinds of crazy shit, this is Li-ion.
Both can catch fire.
The new iCarBattery. Charges iPods, iMacs, iPhones, and MBPs for hours. For no added charge, will also seemingly reduce the weight of your portable electronics to nothing.
These could come in handy when on remote location shoots. We may consider getting a couple. Thanks Gizmodo.
Wow - or you could get one of these
http://www.apc.com/resource/include/techspec_index.cfm?base_sku=UPB90
Which have been around for like three years and do exactly the same thing for less.
I guess it's not a Mac product if it's not shiny and says 'Mac' on it somewhere.
Except that there is a difference between 90 Wh and 222...
typical mactard: my macbook pro can run up to 9 hours, and with this 500 dollar battery, i can have it run for 40 hours!
any one with common sense: er... you can find the money to buy all that crap, but cant find an outlet in forty hours?
typical mactard: my macbook air is so thin and light. now with this battery pack, i can last forty hours!
any one with common sense: so how does it feel having extra five pound, when your laptop only weighs three?
laptop battery isnt like oxygen supply in outer space. i dont think anyone needs forty hours of battery on them
These things look great for situations like camping outdoors. They would enable ample energy supply for watching DVDs and surfing using a 3G connection. $499 for the top one is a bit steep, but it's still a good product.
i don't know about you, but this problem could have been solved with:
1) removable batteries (in the case of the Air)
2) 9 or 12 cell batteries- they're usually much cheaper than this, but they do add weight to a laptop
3) AC/DC power supplies that can work in cars, airplanes, and AC outlets. Every other company offers one with their laptops (and Targus has one that works with most laptops) Apple, however, does not. Heck, it'd be nice if Apple licensed Magsafe to other companies, but they don't. Sometimes it feels to me like no one at Apple is thinking with their head.
the pricing is very similar to apple products as well. there is almost no way i can justify spending that much when i can just buy another battery for less. Granted the functionality looks amazing, and i really want one. ohh the economy...
will you please stop trying to fucking sell us your life story james fuck off singleton
It powers a macbook? or a macbook air? :p
Kangbp.nyc, you're not imagining all of the possible situations where this could be handy.
In my case, I have a MacBook Pro and I mostly use it plugged in on my desk or on my lap in bed. Sometimes, I'll go someplace with just a second battery and/or with a power adapter. Usually when I'm traveling by plane, I'll bring both. My normal use is normal laptop use for it.
However, I also have a 26' sailboat. I've been known to stay on it for only a day or for a couple of weeks. My ability to generate power on the sailboat is limited, so I have a huge ass, and barely portable battery that I take ashore and charge when I can. This allows me to use my MacBook Pro (and other devices) for days when there's no outlet to connect to. I've also used this at different events or when there have been blackouts.
Really, I can't imagine not having the flexibility of both being very portable with just the MacBook Pro, and having the ability to run for days when I have my huge ass battery pack.
If I'm being a MacTard, please tell me a better way of doing this...not that having a Mac versus PC has anything to do with this.
Dude can I go sailing on your boat with you? I'll bring all the batteries for laptops and gadgets we need!
Scratch that, maybe just some women and alcohol.
What about photographers/videographers working in rural areas who could really use a 32 hour battery pack? Any of you whiney dumbwads think of that?
Yes, this is actually useful, unlike HD video on SLR's.
Yes, I always wanted to carry with me a car battery to brake my back.
PC =! Windows
32 hours of battery life is quite impressive for a Mac Book Air. Using simple math would show that the price is a bargain. Of course there is the obvious sad reality with this product.
"...Of course there is the obvious sad reality with this product"
Which is that you don't have one?
I don't understand all of the negative comments here. Sure, with some spare wire, duck tape, and a case of rechargeable D batteries you could build some gizmo with the same specs, funny thing is that it would probably cost you about the same. Honestly though, look at what you are getting with this product. Metal casing, battery meter, USB and DC power outlets, and it all weighs less than a pound (60Wh model). That's 200 bucks well spent if you ask me. I'd just toss this thing in my backpack and never have to worry about any of my gadgets running out of juice again, cellphone, camera, laptop, pda, whatever. on the flip side I could buy a power sleeve for my iPhone, a second battery for my MBP, and then some other external battery option for my iPods. In the end that would cost me even more and be less effective than this single product. It's either what you are looking for, or it's not, but personally I think this is great product at a reasonable price.
lol iPod Flea anyone?
@cloud858rk: =! != !=
(i.e. "equals exclamation" is not the same as "exclamation equals")
I accept that you could be trying for a bit of Yoda-speak, as in "PC equals not Windows" but then it'd be more correct to have it as "Windows, PC equals not" or "Windows, PC =!"
impressive
How did they get around the MagSafe patent thing? I've never seen a third-party MagSafe compatible power accessory before. These guys are either gonna get sued out of existence or they're not going to be the only guys making accessories like this.
I want a car charger - an inverter is a clunky, messy solution (DC to AC to DC? Haha.)
MagSafe is patented, but the connector on the AC power brick itself is not. Some accessories attach to the "peg" on the brick (where you can switch between the "duck" plug or the cord plug.)
The only use I could think of for this would be camping or sailing, where you have no hope of getting to a power outlet. Otherwise, it's not something the average user would need.
And hey, Mac bashers-- I'm on a MacBook but I run Vista Home Premium as my main OS. Why? Because the MacBook gets a 5.0 Windows Experience Index score in Vista, while most other PC laptops get something in the range of 3.0 to 3.9 --- Why would I want a cheap-ass notebook that doesn't even run the OS it's designed for as well as the MacBook does? The MacBook is the same price or cheaper than the few, rare laptops that manage a 5.0 Windows Experience Index, and it has a better build design and warranty.
Go ahead. Pop over to Best Buy and check the WEI of every laptop in the PC department. I bet you won't find a single one that tops 5.0 WEI, and costs less than $1200. The only one I could find that was close was a Toshiba (4.9 WEI) that cost $750. The few that had a 5.0 or higher were Sony Vaio laptops that cost $1500 or more.
Even PC magazines and blogs have said that the Mac is the best Vista PC you'll find.
I could see this being useful in outdoorsy situations..
I bought one of these and it wouldn't recharge after one use. What a joke.
I have a Honda EU2000 inverter generator, a 800 amp deep cell battery and and a $30 inverter. I can run for weeks on a couple gallons of gas. Takes 2 hours to charge the battery that will run most laptops 48 hours. All this for under $1200. And....I can run the furnace, a couple tv's and a computer if the power goes out in my house. Granted it doesn't all fit in a backpack, but much more useful for MY money.