Batteries

For a laptop made in the mid-90’s, the batteries for my HP Omnibook 5000CTS are still pretty expensive. The lowest I’ve foudn is $89 from this place, and I’m considering it. Even though they’re the crappy NiMH batteries (the Li-ION ones were considerable more; the lowest I’ve seen tonight is 149.00). I figure I can get two of them, that’ll provide enough juice for 3-4 hours of use (if I’m not hammering the hard drive, and the SCSI card is disabled).

But $89 a pop is still WAY better than the $215 HP wants for one. Which I think is unreasonable on HP’s part.