[linger]

LOL,

that 5th aniversary glitter package is quite a sight.
I usually go for the more sedate packaging,

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In essence though, yes that's it. Notice a graphic, a circle with an arrow around it sort of like the recycling logo: the text reads 'recharges up to 1500 times,' suggesting that that one cell, used to the limit, will keep 1500 primary batteries out of the landfills.
What I like about eneloops is that I would use them solely based on their performance advantage alone.

re: Sanyo eneloop XXX (2500mah) - These are hard to come buy. They are a heavy lifting version of the regular 2000mah eneloops.
Sanyo also made a 'lite use' version called eneloop tone's, which were half capacity at 1000mah, there were targeted towards long use low drain applications like alarm clocks, stereo remote controls. The prices I saw for the 'lite' version was comparable to the regular eneloops, so I just bought more regular ones.

I understand people not wanting to put eneloops in mission critical components where they want to put in a battery and forget about it, though I think anything you want to forget about may suffer from that neglect later on (e.g. alarm clock back-up). Another approach is just to pop all your eneloops in the charger at least once a year to appease the gods of low-self-discharge and all the low-drain / no-drain devices should be functional for another year.

***Duraloops *** If you are feeling comfortable with what I've rambled on about so far, there is another excellent packaged lsd nihm cell out there, so called the duraloops: these are re-badged eneloops, made in the same factory and providing identical performance. There is a caveat however, Duracell sells two nearly identical lsd nihm's, same green duracell wrapper on different batteries inside.

Good = 'made in Japan,' white top duracell precharged nihm
Bad = 'made in china,' black top between the positive terminal and the top of the duracell copper coloured top wrapping.

(nothing at all about these two places of origin, however for the context of this post the distinction is VITAL: all my black chinese made duracell nimh's stopped holding a charge and were retired within a year. All of my eneloops (and duraloops) are performing like new and some of them are three years old.)

Best,
Linger