Yeah, I guess I could just keep the iBook for when I need to walk around with my laptop until i can get the battery.

My grandpa has the exact same model Vaio as the one I was looking at from this guy, and I'm not sure if I like it or not. The design is okay, but the lower chassis has some pretty bad flex and it feels generally cheap in that area, and in addition I don't really like the latch mechanism considering you have to push it into place yourself and on top of that it's not a very tight close.

Maybe since I'm trying to get rid of some stuff I could just swap something for a Thinkpad battery?