Last week, Ausnet left the Athenaeum in the dark (literally) while they carried out preventative maintenance in advance of winter.
Up till then I'd used my old Thinkpad, the one I'd used to document both Lake View and part of Dow's pharmacy for the National Trust.
As I'd feared, the Thinkpad's battery is not what it was, and I ended up swapping over to an Acer Travelmate I'd originally bought as a second machine for J.
Last week's power shenanigans convinced me to try shifting to using the Travelmate full time for my cataloguing work.
As you'd suspect, it coped comfortably with this morning's cataloguing session, leaving me with just over half a battery's worth of power when I shut down.
I thought the smaller screen might be a problem, but in practice it turned out not to be.
It's going to be the Travelmate for cataloguing work until further notice...
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