[emondi]

You don't need batteries, you just learn to save your files often. I live in the third world too and can say that even with crappy power supplies computers resist quite well blackouts and brownouts.

[hackerman12345]

Probably good for linux, but with Windows you have to be careful during update time or you can easily soft-brick your machine with a power outage.

[emondi]

People just don't update windows.

That made me remember having to update the BIOS firmware and doing it at 3AM and on a night without wind when there was almost no chance of power going out.