760XL Battery Life and Poor Man's SSD

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760XL Battery Life and Poor Man's SSD

#1 Post by ozzymud » Thu May 12, 2011 1:02 pm

I just got a reconditioned battery in for my 760's... They are running with a CF2IDE adaptor and a 4GB 133X CF card... the battery life is roughly 3 hours with light use and a pcmcia network inserted. Not bad at all i think :)

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$38.65 USD shipped: impact computers refurb battery

P.S. these guys at impact computers seem to have a LOT of stuff for older thinkpads, they ship pretty fast too...
http://www.impactcomputers.com/ibmparts.html
(2)701C,(1)760EL,(6)760XL,(1)760XD
(4)CD Drives (5)int floppies (3)ext floppy (4)2.1GB
(10)CF/IDE w/2 or 4GB 133x CF (1)760XL restore CD
(1)Belkin USB 2.0 32bit Cardbus (2)WPC54G(S) Wifi Cardbus
(1)Belkin F5D5020 NIC (1)Giga-Byte GN-WLM01 Wifi
(1)Backpack CD (1) Xircom REM56G-10 + misc
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Re: 760XL Battery Life and Poor Man's SSD

#2 Post by RealBlackStuff » Fri May 13, 2011 2:05 pm

Their prices are out of this world as well... :evil:
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Re: 760XL Battery Life and Poor Man's SSD

#3 Post by ozzymud » Fri May 13, 2011 6:55 pm

Yea, well at least for their batteries... I can vouch for the quality, the last couple of "reconditiond" batteries i got from ebay cost similar ($30)... but one i sent back, and the other only holds about 45min charge (It does however allow bios flash, so i kept it :P )

This one from Impact holds charge very well, it's actually a 1st for me to be able to run it for a couple hours without AC :)
(2)701C,(1)760EL,(6)760XL,(1)760XD
(4)CD Drives (5)int floppies (3)ext floppy (4)2.1GB
(10)CF/IDE w/2 or 4GB 133x CF (1)760XL restore CD
(1)Belkin USB 2.0 32bit Cardbus (2)WPC54G(S) Wifi Cardbus
(1)Belkin F5D5020 NIC (1)Giga-Byte GN-WLM01 Wifi
(1)Backpack CD (1) Xircom REM56G-10 + misc
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