From: Paul Khoury (pkhoury_at_loop.com)
Date: Sun May 03 1998 - 07:22:07 EDT
On Sat, 2 May 1998 21:56:57 -1000, David Ross wrote:
>>Is Li-Ion really that bad? Worse than NiMH?
>
>
>In terms of recharge cycles, best is NiCad (or lead-acid:-). NIMH is much worse, L-Ion a little worse than
NIMH, Lithium Polymer much worse than L-Ion, and Zinc-Air another order of magnitude worse.
>
>Of course, few reasonable people take discharge cycles as the important measure of battery quality.
>
But I guess each would have to have important advantages, also.
My personal favorite would be Sealed Lead Acid, but it's obviously too heavy for notebook
use. I think it was either the 500 or 510cs that came with SLA for a little while.
I also like NiMH, too. So, what does Lithium Polymer have that Li-Ion doesn't? And I already know
about Zinc air having a lousy number of recharge cycles, but a long charge, like the whole day.
-- Paul Khoury | <pkhoury_at_loop.com> | Sent from my ThinkPad 701CS Proudly running OS/2 Warp 3/4, Slackware Linux, and Sun Solaris 2.4
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