Comments on: Replacement Laptop Battery Hack http://blog.800hightech.com/hack-laptop-battery-replacement/1088/ Military Armed Forces Blog for Custom Computer Laptops and Latest IT Technology Sun, 07 Sep 2008 01:06:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Rich http://blog.800hightech.com/hack-laptop-battery-replacement/1088/#comment-2969 Rich Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:40:27 +0000 http://blog.800hightech.com/hack-laptop-battery-replacement/1088/#comment-2969 Great comment. This concept is the same for printer cartridges. It is not ethical for these "hacks" and often when a contract is signed with DoD there are good warranty incentives, quick delivery, and high quality replacement and additional parts. It may even be a breech of the contract. Price is not everything, but the truth is the companies make their money this way. Competition is so fierce, they try hard to get the price as low as possible. They make the profit on the additional items and replacement parts. Great comment. This concept is the same for printer cartridges. It is not ethical for these “hacks” and often when a contract is signed with DoD there are good warranty incentives, quick delivery, and high quality replacement and additional parts. It may even be a breech of the contract.

Price is not everything, but the truth is the companies make their money this way. Competition is so fierce, they try hard to get the price as low as possible. They make the profit on the additional items and replacement parts.

]]> By: C. Alexander Brown, Rockcliffe Park, Canada. http://blog.800hightech.com/hack-laptop-battery-replacement/1088/#comment-2964 C. Alexander Brown, Rockcliffe Park, Canada. Wed, 14 Nov 2007 04:38:07 +0000 http://blog.800hightech.com/hack-laptop-battery-replacement/1088/#comment-2964 Could some senior officers in Procurement, Logistics and/or Materials research please please take note? And take action? The DOD is being ripped off by the way computer manufacturers configure the batteries for laptops. Greater efficiency is possible. Non-propriarity interchangeability should be demanded and the market should be opened up to outside battery suppliers. The technology already exists for small form fuel cells suitable for laptops and other equipment. Why is DOD not demanding this? What are the excuses? I hope there is an action response to this suggestion. Wake up folks..!! Could some senior officers in Procurement, Logistics and/or Materials research please please take note? And take action? The DOD is being ripped off by the way computer manufacturers configure the batteries for laptops. Greater efficiency is possible. Non-propriarity interchangeability should be demanded and the market should be opened up to outside battery suppliers. The technology already exists for small form fuel cells suitable for laptops and other equipment. Why is DOD not demanding this? What are the excuses? I hope there is an action response to this suggestion. Wake up folks..!!

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