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On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Karen Wheeless wrote: > 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 >... > > 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? All 701 owners should note that the 701 can take both NiCd and NiMH batteries. If you have battery-related information or problems, please be sure to identify which type of battery you're talking about. Generally, the 701's NiMH batteries seem to cause much less grief than the NiCd. They last longer too (around 3 hours for mine). IBM claims the 701's NiMH is designed to avoid the high discharge rate other NiMHs have, and to my experience this has been true (I've got a spare that's sat for over a month holding nearly a full charge). The downside of this is that they recommend you not discharge it (the NiMH) fully as that can degrade its capacity. -- John H. Kim jokim@mit.edu