Re: 755CE & Lithuim Ion ?

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From: Randal Whittle (whittle_at_chaph.usc.edu)
Date: Fri May 12 1995 - 17:42:50 EDT


> >From the message below, can I correctly assume that the new Lithium Ion
> battery (for the 755CX, i guess) can work in a stock 755CE ???? or do the
> LI batteries only work in a 755CE which has been upgraded to a pentium?

> i though someone was saying that the charging logic for NiMH and LI are
> totally different....

        It is, but if they anticipated the CE model to take a lithium
battery in the near future, perhaps they built-in the necessary
logic/intelligence to adjust the charge methodology to accomodate
a lithium-ion battery.

> if it does work, what kind of improvement in battery life would i get in my
> 755CE with a LI -vs- the NiMH the machine shipped with?

        All things being equal, I'd say...oh, almost twice as long.

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