Last month Apple filed suit against HyperMac and their parent company, Sanho, accusing them of parent infringement over the HyperMac line of external laptop batteries – and more importantly – the Apple MagSafe connectors that the external batteries use to charge the Mac or MacBook Pro that the HyperMac battery is connected to. Today, according to an e-mail from Sanho Corporation CEO Daniel Chin, Sanho and HyperMac will stop selling the HyperMac batteries with the MagSafe connectors on November 2nd, 2010 while they negotiate with Apple.
HyperMac states you’ll still be able to buy the external batteries after that date, but without the MagSafe connector, they won’t be able to charge your device over anything but USB, unless you already have a connector cable. Only time will tell whether the lawsuit blows over and HyperMac is able to sell the external battery packs again, but in the interim, this is the last opportunity to pick one up before they’re gone for good in their current form.
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