<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 10:45, Jim Herrmann <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kclug@itdepends.com">kclug@itdepends.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Shit. None of this is easy. The ASUS looks like almost the same machine for $250 less.<div class="im"><br><a href="http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0355914" target="_blank">http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0355914</a><br>
</div><div class="im"><a href="http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=113" target="_blank">http://www.system76.com/product_info.php?cPath=28&products_id=113</a><br><br></div>Although the System76 has the matte finish and Li-Polymer battery.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>All laptop batteries are the same, chemically. We're still a ways off from new kinds of LiIon technologies. There's really only a handful of lithium cell makers in the world of consumer electronics. The only deviations are in their shapes.<br>
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