IBM Help!

[Icefingers]

Okay, so I have a 2373 T42. Its about 2 months old and its a sweet computer. I don't really let it run off of the battery, but somehow my battery life is trashed. It will only charge up to 96% and even then, I don't really maximize my battery (only lasts for sub 2 hours). I had heard of revamping my battery. It is sad that I already have to do this to a laptop battery that is pretty much brand new. Anyone have some good suggestions of preserving batterylife and getting my battery revamped.

Secondly, I only have 40 gigs. Now, most ppl would say thats decent, but I want like a 100 gig harddrive. I noticed seagate has 100gig hd coming out pretty soon, anyone know of a good drive that is like 75+ gigs and can anyone recommend stuff? Thanks for all your help!

 

[Turkish]

Call, use your warranty and get a replacement battery. IBM Service > *

No idea about the drive but if I were you, I'd get a 200-250 GB External USB 2.0 Drive.

 

[Icefingers]

id much rather have an internal drive. i am a college student and take my computer everywhere. i was lookin at the seagate drives that should hopefully be comin out soon that are 8mb buffers with 5400 rpm's but if anyone has any experience with high quality large drives, plz let me know

 

[fbrdphreak]

Seagate has a 100GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache available @ BBY for $199.99
If you "don't really let it run off the battery," then that might explain why you're having trouble. If you leave it plugged in a lot, the system is probly generating a good bit of heat around that battery and that can really kill your batt. Search for the battery life thread on here (might be archived), that has a lot of great info on it.