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Robert Dewar wrote: > <<The fact that the harddrive, CD ROM, and floppy drive are on the outside > and could somehow fall out of the unit. Having had ThinkPads for some > time and remembering that last time I had one with a battery that slid > in from the outside (it must have fallen out a dozen times!), it makes > me nervous. > >> > > This is FUD at a pretty extreme level. FUD?!?!? FUD?!?!? That was unkind! ;-) > Now there is a nice lever in front to eject the battery from the left, or > whatever is in the ultrabay from the right. > > Absolutely ZERO possibility of one of these sliding out on its own. > > What is particularly nice is that it is easy to change batteries, and given > that you can put a battery in each side, you can very easily change one while > the machine is running on the other. I know it's convenient. However, latches break, and I'm concerned about that in this case. The President of HSAnet has one and I've messed with it. It's certainly convenient, but I still remember those batteries flying out the front of the early Thinkpad 700s... -- Steve Hultquist, Chief Technology Officer HSAnet providing high-speed Internet access Boulder, Colorado mailto:ssh@HSAnet.net +1.303.581.0800 http://www.HSAnet.net/