[Ti] Battery Question

[Bryce McKinlay]

On Thursday, Jan 30, 2003, at 06:51 Pacific/Auckland, Sherman Gregory  
wrote:

>> Well, at least the 17" PowerBook appears to use the same battery.  
>> This is quite an unexpected relief for me, and it guarantees that 15"  
>> replacement batteries will be around for some time.
>
> I Hope this is true also.  On the day of the announcement, I found  
> something on Apple's site implying that they were different.  Now I  
> can't find it, so maybe we are OK.


Unfortunately, looking at the photos from the following site the  
batteries do appear to be different. It looks like the 17" battery is  
thinner and wider than the batteries from the 15" model.

http://www.macitynet.it/immagini/visitaconnoi/mwsf2003/dettaglipb1/

In particular, note this photo of the battery and battery bay:

http://www.macitynet.it/immagini/visitaconnoi/mwsf2003/dettaglipb1/ 
source/20.shtml

(these pages are in Italian, but babelfish does a reasonable job of  
translation)

Bryce.