You can buy low self-discharge Maha Imedion 2400mAh AAs today-
http://www.mahaenergy.com/store/viewItem.asp?idProduct=426&cur=features#mid,
which may perform as well or better than the new Eneloops.
I have 2 year old 2100mAh Imedions and they all meaured well
over 2100. I bought them because they outperformed the same generation Eneloops despite the eneloop's higher nominal mAh rating. Eneloops are great batteries, but I believe their mAh rating is slightly inflated for marketing reasons. In practical terms they probably perform about equally (in all the testing reports I reviewed, the old gen Imdedions only slighly edged out the Eneloops). Yet personally, I appreciate Maha rating their batteries more realistically and prefer them, partly for that reason, partly for the slighlty better performance, and partly as a negative reaction to Sanyo's big marketing budget and contribution to inflationary specs. You'd think they were the only ones making decent low-discharge NiMh.
I'm just tired of marketing obscuring things of actual significance with meaningless or outright incorrect statements and inflated one-up-manship.
Can you store 1TB of information on a 1TB hard drive?
Does 192kHz audio offer more resolution in the 20Hz - 22kHz region than 96 or 48kHz?
Can that inexpensive 1000W car amp supply more current at the same distortion levels as this old well-built 200W one?
The answert to each is NO, but markers would have us believe those things are true.
Hey Sanyo, do you hear my wallet speaking?
/rant
SANYO Launches its Long Awaited Rechargeable Battery with High Capacity and Low Self-discharge (Exclusive to Europe)
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Rating Capacity (Typ.)
2500 mAh
Rating Capacity (min.)
2400 mAh