Recently, we’ve been having a lot of bad weather in the area. This caused quite a few power failures in our office.  They only lasted 1 or 2 seconds, but it was enough to hear a simultaneous set of curses and moans throughout the office:  everyone’s desktop rebooted.

Luckily, I work on a laptop, so my laptop battery saved me.  This got me thinking.  Why don’t desktop power supply manufacturers create power supplies with a very small battery in them?  I’m not talking about a full UPS, but just a battery with enough juice to prevent the desktop from rebooting when there’s a 1 or 2 second power failure.