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Dear List: I have a 701C that I purchased new a little over a year ago (when they were discontinuing the line). Everything's worked great for me until recently. In the last couple of months I've found that while the onboard battery will say the fully-charged battery should operate for an hour and 45 or 50 minutes - it will actually conk out after about 30 minutes. Is this just the inevitable battery wear out? Or is there likely to be some other problem. I've always fully discahreged the battery before recharging (per IBM instructions) and got close to 2 hours off a fully charged battery for the first 10 months of owning the computer. If this is just an inevitable battery wear-out can I replace the existing Ni-Cd battery with one of the newer NIMH batteries or do I have to find a Ni-Cd? Thanks for your help, Karen Wheeless wheeless@mnsinc.com