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Laptop battery

FordDude

FordDude

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I have a Dell Inspiron laptop puter. The puter has been telling me to replace the battery for 6 months now. It will last 45 minutes to an hour, but shut down without warning if I do not watch the power level. I see a company called Laptop Battery 1 chinese junk from the reviews or Anker which seems to have better reviews. Or pay full price for a Dell battery. :mark (yeah I know the master has not fixed them yet, but that is the one that I would use.) Any other batteries out there that I should know about. This is MY first laptop, and will not be my last. Towers are nice, cheaper but you are anchored to the spot where they live.

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I ordered one off ebay for cheap and it has been pretty good. I usually keep it on charge, but I take it out on the porch and it will last for a couple hours.

Bill
 
I have a Dell laptop I bought for the wife ~4+yrs. ago and the battery went out. I ordered the Anker from Amazon for $35/free shipping instead of the original Dell battery that was 3X? the cost.

I left the laptop on for a few days with no battery attached as I had read elsewhere and then clipped the new battery in and let it charge for ~48hrs. If I remember right it only said ~75% charged but I continued to run the battery down ~1wk. and charge it for 24hrs. until it showed 100% charge eventually. I've read that the Dell is supposed to recognize non proprietary batteries and this is why you have to run it down to 0 w/o the battery in.

This is a big laptop with DVD burner, etc. so it never had a very long battery life when new (3hrs.?) and I know the new battery lasts for at least 2+ as the daughter watches movies in the car on trips with it still.

I also had to replace the cord/charger as she bent the connector so many times it frayed, found an original Dell cord for cheap enough though.
For the cost, use of the laptop and age I'd buy the Anker again.
Jon
 
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