Heyho. I'm pretty far from being an export Newtonian but with my eMate (also rebuilt battery pack) sometimes I've seen very quick battery drains when the emate was supposedly sleeping. Whereas generally it lasts for quite some time. It's caught me out quite a few times when the eMate's battery...
Excellent. It appeared to work with a Localtalk cable, but then I went down the rabbit hole of connecting wirelessly to Globaltalk from the eMate. I think a few prints worked but not really sure. Changing zones and selecting printers was good, but for actual printing it generally lost connection...