Comments on: Batteries better, but are they still guilty as charged?

"You can never be too rich, too thin or have enough battery life," says one analyst. That in mind, firms work to up run times.

[Que.Ball]

Now make them more durable

My laptop has Lithium Ion batteries which now only hold a 15
minute charge. When it was new they would last for 5 hours.

They want $149 for a replacement.

I wish they could at least make the replacements cheaper, or
make it so that the local battery place can replace the cells.

No incentive

Corporations, generally speaking, are very self serving and arrogant. The only reason we don't have better batteries is because they will make less money. They do not care about the impact on cutomers or the enviroment. The only thing that will reign them in is government intervention, but since corporations own the US government, that is unlikely to ever happen.

It is a shame that money rules everything, even common sence and decency. I wonder what good all that money will do for those people once the earth is rendered uninhabitable.

[markdoiron]

Best Possible Rechargeable Battery Improvement

the single best rechargeable battery improvement is the one that the mfg's aren't selling us: a standard-size, user-replaceable battery!!!!! i'd GLADLY pay an extra $10 to not have to buy an outrageously priced, proprietary battery; especially if that battery could only be replaced by the mfg (or, worse yet, was a "lifetime" battery in a sealed unit that meant the entire device had to be replaced!).

think about it: wouldn't it be nice to have one or two chargers for all your rechargeable batteries? that would mean you don't have to buy (ie PAY!) for a battery charger with every new product you get--a real cost savings. and wouldn't it be nice to be able to pull your "darn it just died!" battery from your cell phone and replace it with the one in your digital camera to make that important, deal-closing telephone call? or how about the battery in your old cell phone that's now so much trash still fits that digital camera that's worth keeping?

come on mfg's, quit with the excuses and give us a rechargeable batteries standard!!!

mark d.

ipod the worst

cnet forgot to mention how the ipod (any of them) all have the worst battery times than any other harddrive based music players. Even the video/music/photo players that came out long before apples new music/photo player has a much longer battery life. Up to 80%! What's the deal with that?

Pay more for less = apple.