Need a Battery?

[Jason Dunn]

<a href="http://www.pdainternalbattery.com/">http://www.pdainternalbattery.com/</a><br /><br />Laptops For Less has launched a version of their site aimed specifically at PDA owners in need of replacement batteries and accessories. They have replacement batteries for iPAQs, Toshibas, and HP Jornadas. If you need a replacement internal battery, check this site out.

[toshtoshtosh]

They are charging $89 for an e740 battery which can be had for $30 to $40 less on other sites. What a rip-off!

Toshiba itself sells it for $69 on their own site.

[Newsboy]

Drat. No Audiovox Maestro / Tosh. e570 battery. Oh well. Got my Z50 today anyway!

[QYV]

I think it's great that there's another option out there - thanks for pointing it out, Jason. Having just done the battery replacement thing for an iPAQ 3600, though, I have to note that the folks at LinearLogix:

http://www.ipaqupgrade.com/index2.html

...will give you the battery and install it for the same price Laptops for Less is charging for the battery by itself. I had a great experience with LinearLogix, so I'd go with them before Laptops for Less - hopefully the latter site will realize they need to undercut the competition and start dropping prices.

[Gremmie]

They are charging $89 for an e740 battery which can be had for $30 to $40 less on other sites. What a rip-off!

Toshiba itself sells it for $69 on their own site.

I'll do you one better, it can be bought for $20 less on the Toshiba website! WTF--are they buying retail and marking up from that?!? :roll:

[Sven Johannsen]

The external battery pack thing looks kind of intersting. Could help out on long flights or something. Even Jornada users could use it eith the Pharos power adapter I'd bet.

[Jorj Bauer]

They are charging $89 for an e740 battery which can be had for $30 to $40 less on other sites. What a rip-off!

Toshiba itself sells it for $69 on their own site.

No kidding. A cursory search shows these:

$57 at Digitally Unique (http://shop.store.yahoo.com/digitally-unique/pa3187u1brs.html)

$58 at PC Connection (http://www.pcconnection.com/scripts/productdetail.asp?product_id=301183)

I'd really like to find the original manufacturer of the battery and find a replacement that way, but I bet that the custom packaging for the e740 is a killer. It looks like the battery is molded into the case.