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External batteries benchmarked, the portable juice is loose
A lot of portable PC power cells last for only four or five hours, after which you'll find yourself chained to a wall socket. Good thing there are external batteries to keep us in current when a plug's nowhere to be found, and Tom's Hardware has done some benchmarking on a slew of such devices so you'll know which one's suited for you. A Dell Vostro 3300 and an Inspiron Mini 10 running Windows 7 were used to put packs from Amstron, Brunton, Digipower, Electrovaya, Energizer, Lenmar, PowerTraveller and Tekkeon through some real-world paces -- we're talking word processing and web surfing, not fragging and film editing. So if you're in the market for a mobile power unit, hit the source link and get the down and dirty on which external battery's best.
Tekkeon's myPower ALL practically does
Another day, another random way to keep the juice flowing to your stash of electronics. This time around we have the myPower ALL charger from Tekkeon. They seem to be pretty serious about the "ALL" part, since they offer up power adapters for an incredible amount of cameras, laptops, music players, phones and other devices. They're offering two versions of the device, the MP3300 with up to 14V of power and the MP3400 with 19V and 40% more capacity. The units go for $120 and $160 respectively, with most adapters going for $3 to $5.
