From: Ellen K. 

Warning:  Ignorance about to be revealed!

1.
     A.  Is that 3 hours if I have 2 batteries in it, or 3 hours if I
have 1 battery in it?
     B.  If the latter, how long will I be able to run if I have 2
batteries in it?
     C.  Will I get more time by having one battery in it which I change
out when it gets low, or two batteries in it from the get-go?

2.  What do you mean by "extra powersource"?  The only power I
know about is a battery or an adapter for plugging into the wall.  Is there
something else?

3.  Do you have the 7200 RPM drive?  And/or do you agree with George that
the 5400 will be a turtle?

.................

Separately, glad to hear you think the D610 is a good choice, thanks.
:)

On Tue, 14 Mar 2006 07:25:38 +0200, "Antti Kurenniemi"
 wrote in message :

>3 hours, or 2 hours if you get it with 2 drives. Here's the trick that makes
>the battery life almost irrelevant: Get two extra powersources, so you have
>one at your office and one home and one in the laptop case, and you're all
>set. That's my setup, and it works like a champ.
>
>
>Antti Kurenniemi
>(I've got two D610's, and have just today ordered one for a customer of
>mine - it's a good laptop)
>
>"Ellen K"  wrote in message
>news:c08e33.6d886b{at}harborwebs.com...
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm finally looking on the Dell site for a notebook for work, the
>> selection
>> helper thing pointed me to the Latitude D610.  I can get a 7200 rpm drive
>> in it
>> as opposed to the standard 5400, which if I'm going to be doing database
>> stuff
>> on it when it's in the docking station (I guess I'm getting a docking
>> station)
>> will be the big thing for performance.  Even better would be two drives,
>> which
>> supposedly is actually possible.  However, I'm confused about the
>> batteries.
>> All it says in the "customize it" part is that I can
have either a 4-cell
>> primary battery or a 6-cell primary battery, no price difference... And I
>> can
>> get a secondary battery "additional 6-cell primary
battery" or "6-cell
>> media
>> bay battery".   If I click for more information I get the below
>> non-information, none of which tells me HOW LONG I CAN RUN THE MACHINE ON
>> THE
>> BATTERY!!!
>>
>> What do you advise?
>>
>

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