On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:15:49AM -0700, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked:
> Hi group,
>
> This summer's electrical storms are coming and I can count on my PC stopping dead several times over the season.
>
> I did a search for UPS units and was overwhelmed by the diversity out there.
>
> What can the group recommend?
>
> I only need something that will give me about a minute's head start to safely turn of the box.
>

I use an APC Back-UPS ES 500. Since my desktop is kind of old and does
not consume too much power, it can (and has) helped my desktop survive
a ~30 mintue outage when I could not be reached to shut it down (as to
how I know: my neighbor gave me a call on his cell asking whether the
power is out for me too...)

I have heard that I can make the graceful shutdown automatic, but so
far I haven't bothered with it.

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