The battery is good for when you are playing at a LAN party and the power goes out. Let's say you get 10 min (I'm giving it the benefit of the doubt) of powered life.
You lose 4 min worth of life while the game figures out that it has been disconnected. Right after the game asks you if you want to goto the main menu, a windows popup says
"Warning, your battery power is low, you have approximately 6 min of battery life left." Only this popup is the kind that makes the game menu and the alerting message window unacceptable all in one popup. After pressing <ALT>+[<ESC>,<F1> thru <F12>] (which don't work) you remember that secret key combo involving the shift, alt, esc, F6 and windows key that closes any alerting popup messages while you are using full screen mode. That did the trick, you click on the (now minimized) game so you can close it and it will not maximize. Great.. So you open the first windowed app you can find in hopes that it will show the game how to recover from being minimized. once the window opens you get a message that says "no available networks found" with the buttons ABORT RETRY or FAIL. What? what did I open? (which turns out to be Internet Explorer) Hmm, no time now. So you try clicking on the game again and (with your fingers and toes crossed) it opens.
You close the game without too much difficulty and you are now faced with the IE window with that promising ABORT button. <click> nothing <click><click> still nothing Dang it I don't have time, you glance at the est. battery power left; 2 min. So you start clicking the ABORT button as fast as your finger will oscillate the 50 gram microswitch mouse. About what you swear was 100 times you clicked the ABORT button, it disappears. big sigh. However you don't have time with <1 min of battery life.
You quickly goto Start > shutdown and right before you could move your mouse to press OK everything goes black.
Another min later the power comes back on and you are stuck with the blue scandisk screen (because you did not properly shut down) while everybody else is playing games again. SIGH
LOL I con't belive anybody (esp the LAN gamer) would buy something like this.
