[ale] Converting 600 old laptops into K12LTSP thin clients for 1:1 ratio at a middle school

[Geoffrey]

James P. Kinney III wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-05-21 at 10:07 -0400, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
>> The only gotcha with old laptops is that many of their batteries will 
>> likely have gone bad and are very expensive (think >$100) to replace.  
>> So, having them run untethered may be a nonstarter. 
> 
> In fact, some laptop models won't run at all even tethered to power if
> the battery is bad.

Why is that?  I've never encountered such.  Every laptop I've seen will 
operate with AC power with the battery removed.  Would they operate in 
this way?

By the way, the general rule is 3 years life on laptop batteries.

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Until later, Geoffrey

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