Batteries: May 2008 Archives

Asus has warned users to beware of third party batteries that may have damaged at least one eee pc and noted that such damage would not be covered under warranty.

Apparently there are batteries available in China for $71 to $86 that had capacities up to twice that of the standard eee pc battery.

The battery maker denies the claims of overheating and states that it is propaganda put out by their rivals designed to hurt their sales.

(via digitimes)

CNBC is reporting that California-based battery company ZPower will announce it's first product in august (after 10 years development).

ZPower batteries are based on silver-zinc in stead of the currently used lithium-ion and are designed to be 85% recyclable.

The batteries offer 40% more power density than lithium-ion which means that the same size battery will keep your laptop going 40% longer.

(more at cnbc)