[iBook] Clamshell Battery Manufacturing Vendors

[Brian Pearce]

Does anyone know if there are any vendors beside BTI that still 
manufacture Clamshell iBook Batteries these days?

I bought a replacement iBook battery (manufactured by BTI) last year at 
about this time, and the performance has degraded much quicker than I 
had expected -- it's now down to about 1:30 for a full charge. Granted, 
I now use the iBook a great deal more than I did over the three or four 
year life of the original battery (I'm now a stay-at-home Dad, and I 
run a small publishing business on the side), and that's meant more 
charge-and-discharge cycles -- but this is a fairly steep drop off 
after only a year's use. I haven't been able to improve it, and it 
looks as if I'll want to buy a new battery sooner, rather than later, 
so I was hoping there might be an alternative vendor to choose from.

Any ideas?

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net
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