Laptop Troubles (batteries...)

[emzy]

Hi everyone,

So after my headphone socket giving out last week (I still haven't taken it to a shop - I'm hoping it just needs re-soldering!), I turned my laptop on this morning to be greeted by an alert saying that my battery is "nearing the end of its usable life"...

Laptop's a Dell, and the link the alert gave was to Dell batteries that cost £150... *dies*

Should I be looking at buying a new one? Or is it just a Dell scare tactic?

Are the ones on eBay worth bothering with? They're significantly cheaper. Or has anyone had any good experience with them?

Or could this just be a random one-off alert and it'll go away and everything will be fine?!

[DCM]

My daughter got a Dell, and I will be ordering one of the 'cheapies' from fleabay, it can't be that much worse than the OEM item.

[MatJohnson]

There prolly from the same factory, won't do any hard though. Wait till it breaks though, you can use it plugged in without a battery for a week or so whilst the new one gets there.

[dmsykes]

I Emzy,

Got one for my grandaughte's Acer from the internet & also one for my Sony Vaio no problems. They do take a while to get here 10 to 15 working days. They come with all the CE markings and I told the opportunity to get a higher capacity one. Just Google the battery model number or computer model in and you should get plenty of hits. Have used two sites already with no problems.

[bigred5765]

Hi everyone,

So after my headphone socket giving out last week (I still haven't taken it to a shop - I'm hoping it just needs re-soldering!), I turned my laptop on this morning to be greeted by an alert saying that my battery is "nearing the end of its usable life"...

Laptop's a Dell, and the link the alert gave was to Dell batteries that cost £150... *dies*

Should I be looking at buying a new one? Or is it just a Dell scare tactic?

Are the ones on eBay worth bothering with? They're significantly cheaper. Or has anyone had any good experience with them?

Or could this just be a random one-off alert and it'll go away and everything will be fine?!
mines been asking for a new battery for the last 3 years,

ps it does only last 2-3 hours when power supply isnt plugged in

[Whiskers]

mines been asking for the past 6 months but it does still last an hour unplugged. BTW it is a 17.5 inch laptop so more power hungry

[emzy]

I realised last night that mine doesn't even do an hour unplugged now... I was watching BBC iPlayer on power saver mode, and probably only got about 40 minutes before it died (I missed the ending of Being Human!)... I used to get a whole Strictly Come Dancing (2 hours) on normal power mode! :(

[bigred5765]

get em of ebay dirt cheap

[JCJC]

We had what must have been a cell go on our laptop battery, replaced from eBay from http://stores.ebay.co.uk/hotsellnowcom may or may not have a warrenty but was cheap & works (now done 40+ charge/discharge), can remember reasonable delivery time.