Comments on: No more Motion M1400 batteries after 2007 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/ Technology, music, video, art, news, reviews and muse on the web Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:16:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: ketty1984 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-795831 ketty1984 Sun, 27 Jul 2008 13:48:02 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-795831 Another good battery source is http://www.laptop-notebook-battery.org They have a wide selection of batteries and they might be able to help you. Hope this helps. Another good battery source is
http://www.laptop-notebook-battery.org
They have a wide selection of batteries and they might be able to help you. Hope this helps.

]]> By: Liza http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-788016 Liza Fri, 23 May 2008 18:28:38 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-788016 Another good battery source is http://www.batterytex.com They have a wide selection of batteries and they might be able to help you. Hope this helps. Another good battery source is
http://www.batterytex.com
They have a wide selection of batteries and they might be able to help you. Hope this helps.

]]> By: Roger Gustavsson http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-702762 Roger Gustavsson Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:50:36 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-702762 You can still find batteries for the M1400 from several sources. Here are just a few: http://www.laptopbatterybbs.com/GATEWAY/lwgateway03t1.php http://www.batteryrefill.com/laptops/gateway/m1200.phtml http://www.battery-for-laptop.com/laptop_battery.php?pid=693 http://www.batteryfast.com/gateway/bat0016.php You can still find batteries for the M1400 from several sources. Here are just a few:

http://www.laptopbatterybbs.com/GATEWAY/lwgateway03t1.php

http://www.batteryrefill.com/laptops/gateway/m1200.phtml

http://www.battery-for-laptop.com/laptop_battery.php?pid=693

http://www.batteryfast.com/gateway/bat0016.php

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-642742 TDavid Thu, 11 Oct 2007 16:16:42 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-642742 Yeah, it sucks, Ben, but try the other battery resources mentioned above. Maybe somebody else can help. Best of luck. Yeah, it sucks, Ben, but try the other battery resources mentioned above. Maybe somebody else can help. Best of luck.

]]> By: Ben http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-642664 Ben Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:23:22 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-642664 Imagine having 50 M1400's and about 150 batteries that are all approaching 3 years old today, and they're all starting to fizzle out and die. I'm JUST NOW finding out that Motion is not going to make batteries for the units. I had no idea, I mean, *why* would a manufacture stop making batteries for a computer they just stopped selling in September 2005, 2 years ago. Yeah, this sucks, and I'm letting Motion know it. Imagine having 50 M1400’s and about 150 batteries that are all approaching 3 years old today, and they’re all starting to fizzle out and die. I’m JUST NOW finding out that Motion is not going to make batteries for the units. I had no idea, I mean, *why* would a manufacture stop making batteries for a computer they just stopped selling in September 2005, 2 years ago. Yeah, this sucks, and I’m letting Motion know it.

]]> By: Bruce Eliot http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-64479 Bruce Eliot Sat, 01 Apr 2006 23:30:04 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-64479 Just bought a M-1400 on BAY .Any idea of how to get 3 cell battery at reasonable price? Just bought a M-1400 on BAY .Any idea of how to get 3 cell battery at reasonable price?

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-49687 TDavid Fri, 13 Jan 2006 15:57:38 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-49687 This might be one possible solution from APC: http://www.upsgalaxy.com/showroom/2865.cfm#Features A Universal Notebook battery, min 80w capacity. About 250 bones, but food for thought. This might be one possible solution from APC: http://www.upsgalaxy.com/showroom/2865.cfm#Features

A Universal Notebook battery, min 80w capacity. About 250 bones, but food for thought.

]]> By: TDavid http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-48785 TDavid Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:39:17 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-48785 Neil, you are correct, and we do plan to buy at least one in December 2007. Still, I hope somebody else comes along and picks up the battery production or that using a third party battery service for rejuicing the cells is an option. Neil, you are correct, and we do plan to buy at least one in December 2007. Still, I hope somebody else comes along and picks up the battery production or that using a third party battery service for rejuicing the cells is an option.

]]> By: Neil Burnett http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-48759 Neil Burnett Tue, 10 Jan 2006 09:17:54 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-48759 It's not when they stop making them, its when the stocks run out. Why not buy a couple in January 2008 to see you through till 2010? Although I will move to a new tablet after 2 to 3 years (I bought my M1400 the same time as you did), I fully expect my (currently 8 year old) daughter to continue using it as her own once I have moved on. It’s not when they stop making them, its when the stocks run out.

Why not buy a couple in January 2008 to see you through till 2010? Although I will move to a new tablet after 2 to 3 years (I bought my M1400 the same time as you did), I fully expect my (currently 8 year old) daughter to continue using it as her own once I have moved on.

]]> By: Make You Go Hmm: » Don’t buy a new Tablet PC, buy an older model instead or keep waiting http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-42473 Make You Go Hmm: » Don’t buy a new Tablet PC, buy an older model instead or keep waiting Tue, 06 Dec 2005 22:51:58 +0000 http://www.makeyougohmm.com/20050810/2226/#comment-42473 [...] - Overweight. Most are heavier than the tablet I bought a year ago! Mobility is very important and if it isn’t lighter and easier to carry around than my existing tablet then it would be a downgrade, not an upgrade. The LE1600 from Motion is one of the new crop of lighter tablets, but it took out a few things I liked in the M1400 and it didn’t improve on standard specs (see next post). Oh, and did I mention that I’m still disappointed that Motion plans to stop making batteries and other accesories in just two short years? They need to extend that to 2010 at least. Some people bought M1400’s new from them this last summer 2005! - Still overpriced. Yes the price has come down somewhat within the last 12 months and finally more retail presence. But let’s be real here, we’re still nowhere close to Bill Gate’s vision of the $500 tablet (admittedly, Gates said this would take “awhile”). With lowend laptops starting to push down beneath $500 and some pretty good laptops in the $750-$1,250 range, the tablet is still overpriced at the common $1,500 price point, with high quality slates still ringing in at $2,000+ with standard features. - Inadequate standard memory and disk space. Come on, manufacturers, stop penny pinching your customers with accessory options and include more standard hard disk space and memory. Yeah, you can upgrade, but that’s wrong for a machine that will set you back over two grand. 100GB hard disk and 1GB RAM should be the standard but that’s not the case with any of the new model tablets, you’ll have to pay more. - Murky Vista specs. Since Vista isn’t actually out yet — only beta — it’s hard to really know what impact this will have on a new tablet purchase outside of taking the manufacturer’s, Microsoft or beta tester’s word. It would really suck shelling out 2-3+ grand only to find out that in 9-12 months that the machine isn’t going to be truly Vista ready. And the next version of the Vista beta that has been shown has already been delayed another couple months which makes things even more of a guessing game. What we do know — or at least have been told — is that Vista will include the Tablet PC OS, thus meaning that in the future every laptop will have tablet capability. The only (vital) missing component would be the digitizer/screen. How this will actually be useful to anybody, I’m curious to learn. [...] […] - Overweight. Most are heavier than the tablet I bought a year ago! Mobility is very important and if it isn’t lighter and easier to carry around than my existing tablet then it would be a downgrade, not an upgrade. The LE1600 from Motion is one of the new crop of lighter tablets, but it took out a few things I liked in the M1400 and it didn’t improve on standard specs (see next post). Oh, and did I mention that I’m still disappointed that Motion plans to stop making batteries and other accesories in just two short years? They need to extend that to 2010 at least. Some people bought M1400’s new from them this last summer 2005! - Still overpriced. Yes the price has come down somewhat within the last 12 months and finally more retail presence. But let’s be real here, we’re still nowhere close to Bill Gate’s vision of the $500 tablet (admittedly, Gates said this would take “awhile”). With lowend laptops starting to push down beneath $500 and some pretty good laptops in the $750-$1,250 range, the tablet is still overpriced at the common $1,500 price point, with high quality slates still ringing in at $2,000+ with standard features. - Inadequate standard memory and disk space. Come on, manufacturers, stop penny pinching your customers with accessory options and include more standard hard disk space and memory. Yeah, you can upgrade, but that’s wrong for a machine that will set you back over two grand. 100GB hard disk and 1GB RAM should be the standard but that’s not the case with any of the new model tablets, you’ll have to pay more. - Murky Vista specs. Since Vista isn’t actually out yet — only beta — it’s hard to really know what impact this will have on a new tablet purchase outside of taking the manufacturer’s, Microsoft or beta tester’s word. It would really suck shelling out 2-3+ grand only to find out that in 9-12 months that the machine isn’t going to be truly Vista ready. And the next version of the Vista beta that has been shown has already been delayed another couple months which makes things even more of a guessing game. What we do know — or at least have been told — is that Vista will include the Tablet PC OS, thus meaning that in the future every laptop will have tablet capability. The only (vital) missing component would be the digitizer/screen. How this will actually be useful to anybody, I’m curious to learn. […]

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