mmm... cheap

Monday, February 02, 2004, at 05:25AM

By Eric Richardson

I'm looking to buy an extra battery for my laptop. Right now I get about three and a half hours from one battery, so I figure getting into the 6 - 7 hour range will basically free me up to go unplugged all day. My laptop doesn't support having two batteries in at once, so it would be a deal where I would have to suspend to disk and swap them, but other than the hassle of switching them out to charge, that's not too big of a deal. Toshiba has the battery I need for $99. That's not bad at all. What's surprising is that their price is by far the lowest I can find. CDW, where I normally look for low prices, has the same battery for $140. Odd. Toshiba also has 256MB of RAM for $79, so if it turns out I've got an open slot (which I'm pretty sure I do, I'll most likely pick that up too.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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