Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?
On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 03:04 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:57:01 -0500
> Owen Heisler <owenh000@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I read in a Popular Science magazine that freezing a battery may help.
> > I had little to lose as this battery was getting very bad, so I tried
> > it. ...It didn't work. Now the battery will charge, but seems to reset
> > every ten seconds or so; it flashes full and then goes back to <10%. It
> > holds absolutely no charge.
> >
> > It is unfortunate that lithium ion batteries cost so much. To replace
> > this one costs more than what I gave for the laptop.
>
> Try looking for batteries on ebay. I got an oem replacement from china for 65$
> including shipping (took about 10 days). Locally they cost about 200$. The old
> one was lasting about 40 minutes this one goes for over 4 hours (i rarely go
> below 50% actually). It also claims to store more juice then it's rated for.
> Don't know if that value is true though.
Wow! And 65 isn't too bad at all. I'll have to check it out.
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