A Laptop Must-Have: Extra Battery Power

On the road again, I've finally found some time to paste a post. I'm back in Nebraska working with some of my favorite clients at their two-attorney, one-assistant firm. It's not easy getting here, it takes four take-offs and landings; two of those on prop planes that could just make you cry. I was looking forward to the time to get some work done on the computer, which I've not had a lot of time to do. Normally, I can't do much of that because the battery life on my laptop just doesn't last long enough. Well, a couple of weeks ago I was in Williamsburg, Virginia for the spring meeting of the LPM Section of the ABA. I was there with the rest of the TECHSHOW Board for the first installment of our 2008 planning geekends. Between the likes of John Simek and Tom Mighell there can be a lot of gadgetry happening in one small room. Debbie Foster - henceforth referred to as DebStar - pulled out the next must-have in my tech arsenal. She slapped an unassuming silver slab onto the table. Naturally, I high-eyebrowed her and asked what it was. She looked at me as if I had slapped her, "it's a battery for my laptop," she replied with that duh-you-call-yourself-a-techie-look. I don't know where I've been because I've never heard about universal notebook batteries. She went on to tell me that it adds 6 hours of time to her laptop. I IMMEDIATELY hopped on the internet and ordered this APC UPB60 Universal Notebook Battery because that's the one DebStar had.